Alan Wolfe Quotes

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

To have died once is enough.

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end.

Once you're dead, your worries are over.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

The great thing about the dead, they make space.

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.