Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

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

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway?

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?'

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

If a man knew how to live he would never die.

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

We are not born to survive. Only to live.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?