Alfred Jules Ayer Quotes

For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.

I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.

Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

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

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

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.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

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

I'm not frightened of death.

I'm not scared of death anymore.

The living are just the dead on holiday

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.

Death is wonderful because you can't think about it. How are you gonna think about it?

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

To conquer death you only have to die.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

I'm not afraid of death at all.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.