Rick Riordan Quotes

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.

What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior.

Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.

What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.

I think dying is the ultimate high...

I was thinking I would miss the rain. I wonder if you can experience the rain in Heaven, if God will let you dip your wings down... But my biggest expectation now is just to live. I will not go gently into that goodnight.

Where do you go when you die? The same place you were before you were born; nowhere! It's over!

For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.