E. L. Doctorow Quotes

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me.

I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

To be immortal and then die

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

I believe in life after death.

But you're dead,' said Harry. 'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. 'Then... am I dead too?' 'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

Death is only a small interruption.

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.

We die, and we do not die.

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.

I actually do believe in life after death.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

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

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 think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.