Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

I don't think death is a negative thing at all. I think it can be very positive.

Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.

You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life.

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

In his own country, Death can be kind.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

We die, and we do not die.

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

I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.