Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

I'm not afraid of death at all.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already dead. It is also a crescendo of what we call life, although very few know what life is. They live, but they live in such ignorance that they never encounter their own life. And it is impossible for these people to know their own death, because death is the ultimate experience of this life, and the beginning experience of another. Death is the door between two lives; one is left behind, one is waiting ahead.

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.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.

I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology and that energy cannot be destroyed, but can change. I don't know what the afterlife is going to be, but I'm not afraid of it.

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.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

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.

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.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.