Harold Brodkey Quotes

I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.

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

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

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.

Death is the most blessed dream.

I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

Once you're dead, your worries are over.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

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

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

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.

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.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.