Juan Rulfo Quotes

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

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.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

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

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

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

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 am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

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 will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

Death does not exist.

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

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.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

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

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

I don't believe in death.

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

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

I have good hope that there is something after death.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.