David Hume Quotes

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

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

Death does not exist.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

Life can't die. It's a contradiction.

What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born.

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.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Where do you go when you die? The same place you were before you were born; nowhere! It's over!

When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

What is it like after you die? Just like it was before you were born.

It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he had the feeling that he wasn't alone. Harry believed in the existence of the soul. Not that he was particularly religious as such, but it was one thing which always struck him when he saw a dead body: the body was bereft of something...the creature had gone, the light had gone,there was not the illusory afterglow that long-since burned-out stars have. The body was missing its soul and it was the absence of the soul that made Harry believe.

From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.