30 Reincarnation Quotes For Inspiration

Reincarnation, the belief that our souls are reborn into new bodies across different lifetimes, has captivated the human imagination for centuries. Across various cultures and religions, this profound concept offers a lens through which to view life, growth, and the everlasting journey of the human spirit. Whether you're a firm believer or simply intrigued by the idea, exploring reincarnation quotes can provide rich insights and inspiration. In this post, we've curated a collection of the top 30 reincarnation quotes to inspire you and plant seeds of contemplation about the cycles of life and rebirth. Dive in and let these timeless words resonate with your soul.

1. “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” - Mahatma Gandhi

2. “For the first forty days a childis given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.” - Michael Ondaatje

3. “I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.” - Leni Riefenstahl

4. “If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.” - Kurt Cobain

5. “When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

6. “A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe a word of this: try asking the children of Indochina who were dumped by their parents for inherited deformities that were attributed to sins in a previous 'life.” - Christopher Hitchens

7. “I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.—address to the Society for Psychical Research in England” - C.G. Jung

8. “Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.” - Christopher Hitchens

9. “A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.” - Kahlil Gibran

10. “Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored...” - Sarah Kernochan

11. “Immortality like this is about as useful as sunscreen on a submarine.” - Elizabeth Marx

12. “He walked out of the cottage and into the night.He was stark naked.” - Max Simon Ehrlich

13. “For a long time, my subconscious rested in a dark place, ticking through memories like a jukebox selecting a record...” - Chelsie Shakespeare

14. “He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.” - Chelsie Shakespeare

15. “When we can't understand the science behind something in this world, we make up mythological entities that we can relate to. We personify the forces of nature that mystify us, using our boundless imaginations to comfort us and make us feel like we have some control over these things that are much bigger than we are.” - Chelsie Shakespeare

16. “I don't think that science and the paranormal have to be at war; in fact, it's crucial that they work together. It seems naïve to believe that the world is exactly as it seems.” - Chelsie Shakespeare

17. “The ocean pulsed outside our window. The sound of the waves crashing on the rocks below usually calmed me down, but the fear and chaos that were tangled in my mind made that an impossibility.” - Chelsie Shakespeare

18. “I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from; I knew where I was going.” - Chelsie Shakespeare

19. “The love of every single one of my lives.” - Alyson Noel

20. “Everything is connected, like a delicate web. Ever growing, ever changing. New silvery strands come together every day, and once the strand is formed, no matter what superficial circumstances may sometimes keep you apart, it is never broken. You will meet again, perhaps in another lifetime. The connection is unbreakable, lying dormant in your subconscious.” - Chelsie Shakespeare

21. “My eyes went straight to a soft woman who sat facing the wrong way at the bar top. Soft, because I knew if I were to touch her skin, it would feel like a peach, the kind of woman you could almost smell from inside the building. Instead of facing Andy, she had her back to him, keeping an eye on the door. That must be her. Her hair was exquisite. She was really the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. A golden crown of braids and curls complimented her sun-kissed skin. Her dress draped perfectly over her body, and in that moment, I needed her more than I needed air.” - Chelsie Shakespeare

22. “This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity.” - Brian Rathbone

23. “What we call life...is the combination of the Five Aggregates, a combination of physical and mental energies. These are constantly changing; they do not remain the same for two consecutive moments. Every moment they are born and they die. 'When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.' This, even now during this life time, every moment we are born and die, but we continue. If we can understand that in this life we can continue without a permanent, unchanging substance like Self or Soul, why can't we understand that those forces themselves can continue without a Self or a Soul behind them after the non-functioning of the body?” - Walpola Rahula

24. “They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the candle on the table startled me at first, just as it had in the icy night air. After seeing it on the street, I was afraid I had only imagined it: a still, luminous face with a silvery sheen. Finely hewn, with a long, straight nose and a wide mouth, it was nearly identical to another face, which I had photographed years before. Not on a person, bu on the fragment of a frieze I found in some ruins near Verona, The frieze, which depicted a band of musicians, had once been shadowed beneath a cornice high on the temple of Mercury, god of magic. Belonging to one of the musicians, it was a riveting face - like a puzzle that could not be solved - which I had never found, or expected to find, on a living woman.” - Nicholas Christopher

25. “You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.” - Jodi Picoult

26. “All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.” - Audrey Auden

27. “Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.” - David Mitchell

28. “Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation.Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again.Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around.Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.” - Dean Koontz

29. “People don't just live one life. They keep coming back until they get it right.” - C R Strahan

30. “Do you believe that we have the ability to change destiny?” - Michelle Madow