Will Self Quotes

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life.

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

Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

I don't think death is a negative thing at all. I think it can be very positive.

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

Death is an eternal sleep.

They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away, do their thoughts just vanish?

How about not equating death with stopping?

And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere. I also can't believe that people like Stalin and Hitler are gonna go to the same place as Mother Teresa.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening. So a great opportunity comes whenever we face death.

The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.

So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.

I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives!

Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.

In his own country, Death can be kind.

Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.