Tilda Swinton Quotes

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.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

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

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.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

The natural world is the lowest element, the scum of creation. What is decisive is the beyond: the divine world, that is eternal.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

I don't think we die. I think our bodies leave, but we can never die. That which is never born, can never die. And that which never changes, can never die.

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.

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.

Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond everything, living beyond mortality, living beyond all the immortal confines, living beyond the planet as we know it. It's mind-blowingly no limits, and I think this is going to be something else.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?

Something there is more immortal even than the stars.