Richard Matheson Quotes

We die, and we do not die.

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

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.

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

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

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!

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

Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

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.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

I don't believe in death.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

Death is just a continuation of life.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.