Alive Quote by Eben Alexander

What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your…

— Antonio Damasio

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

— Stanislav Grof

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

— Diane Ackerman

Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo, it works…

— Ellen Hopkins

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

— John Harvey Kellogg

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the…

— Eben Alexander

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

— Stanislav Grof

“cause of the coma was still a subject of some debate, Dr. Villalobos had said, but most likely, it was caused by stress,”

— Dave Eggers

Everyone's in their own personal coma.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.

— Zadie Smith

It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on the other,…

— Patricia Churchland

For it is indeed consciousness that makes the body fully alive, and the body that gives consciousness a place to live.

— Anodea Judith