Archetypal Quote by Stanislav Grof

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

— Stanislav Grof

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of…

— Cicely Saunders

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if…

— Christopher Paolini

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

— Alan Ball

“Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into the unified…

— Isabel Allende

“Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs.…

— Norman Mailer

Inherently within the temperamental soul of humanity lies a shivering and thoroughly jealous irrational thought of death. Life has such a fickle intense passion,…

— Johnny Luckett

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.”

— Richard J. Borden

“I have come to believe that the merits of a death custom are not based on mathematics (e.g., 36.7 percent a "barbarous act"), but…

— Caitlin Doughty

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

— Elie Wiesel