Dante Alighieri Quotes

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

I’ve been dead for seven years, that’s as warm as they get.

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.

You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

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

Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.

In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.

The world of the dead wonʹt give you up a second time.

After death there is nothing.

Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.

I'm not afraid of death at all.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

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

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.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.