Stevie Smith Quotes

It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that-the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?

Death is the quiet haven of us all.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

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

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

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.

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.

You are dead- what am I speaking to?

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.