Lucretius Quotes

I don't really know if things go from one life to another. I don't know if there's another life after this. I don't want to know.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

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.

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

I don't believe in death.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

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?

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.

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

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

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

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 am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?