Guillermo del Toro Quotes

I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.

'Talks on the Gita' is the story of my life, and it is also my message.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.

As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

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.

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is ready for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Living, he made life beautiful. Dying, he made death divine

I hope that I am out of the music business when I meet God.