Diogenes Quotes

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!

Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything

I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all going to die, that is the end of all consciousness. There is no afterlife. There is no God. Now what do we do.' That's the point where it starts getting interesting to me.

This was real. And it was me. I had lived that life, and I had died that death. I was staring at the very end of me.

Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all.

Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.

Death is a continuation of my life without me.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death.

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

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I think it's really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?