Don DeLillo Quotes

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

The doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.

You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

I don't really know if things go from one life to another. I don't know if there's another life after this. I don't want to know.

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

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

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

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.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.

Death does not exist.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.