Petrarch Quotes

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 think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

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

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.

I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.

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.

I actually do believe in life after death.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

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

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

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

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

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 start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.