Charles de Lint Quotes

We die, and we do not die.

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

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

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.

The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.

There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.

Death is only a small interruption.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Death is the beginning of something.

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.

Death is just a continuation of life.

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

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

I shall not altogether die.

They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.