John Dryden Quotes

'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.

When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

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?

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

Corporeal death is not the whole story.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.

The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

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

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.