Michael Cunningham Quotes

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

Death is the most blessed dream.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

There isn't such a thing as death. It's just a departure.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by living only my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.

It is said that in death, all things become clear.

In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category?

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

When you're dead, you don't breathe, you don't see, you don't feel, you don't love.

Death is the greatest illusion of all.