Don DeLillo Quotes

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

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

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway?

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end.

No one knows when the man up above wants to call your name.

Love is the one thing everyone is looking for, and death is the one thing everyone's running from.

I think everyone, especially after the passing of a loved one, starts to hope that maybe there will be something better on the other side.

I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. What if it doesn't fire? Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock? Is there such a being within you of which you know nothing? Can there be? Hold him in your arms. Just so. The soul is quick. Pull him toward you. Kiss him. Quickly.

The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief.