Sylvia Kristel Quotes

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

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?

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

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.

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?

Life is wasted on the living.

I envy the dead.

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.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.