Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

We die, and we do not die.

I actually do believe in life after death.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

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

I would like immortality.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.

How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?

In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category?

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.

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.

That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.

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

But you're dead,' said Harry. 'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. 'Then... am I dead too?' 'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

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

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

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

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.