Jim Butcher Quotes

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of -- they might be a ghost.

When I experience something, I believe it. I almost choked to death when I was a four year old and had a near death experience. I was very upset that I didn't die because it was a lot more interesting out of your body than in it.

You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.

I said earlier that dead things don't always stay dead. Well, I'm one of them. don't worry - I'm not like the Strigoi. But I did die once (I don't recommend it).

Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? "What duck?" AH. SORRY.

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

But I did die once. (I don't recommend it.)

Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.

I'm tolerant of believers, but I'm agnostic. I'm curious to see how scientists will integrate the near-death experience into their research and if it will be explained.

The really good thing about 'Sleepy Hollow' is you have no idea who's going to die when... But then equally, we showed in the pilot several people can come back to life, so you have no idea who's going to come back. Death means very little in our Sleepy Hollow, so expect more surprise deaths and more surprise resurrections.

Proof' is going to be, in many ways, a mystery. It's not a procedural in any way. It's not a medical drama. It really is about trying to investigate whether or not there's life after death.

I died. Which is fantastic, because I have died already; I have been there and come back. I am completely recovered, thank you.

I believe in life after death.

There is nothing compared to the feeling of losing life. The moment when you are close to death is nothing but a profound experience.

I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free.

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of gods but "bared the miracles." (That is, explained the miracles. - ed.) Oddly enough, we must be satisfied to acknowledge the "miracle" without there being any legitimate way for us to approach it . I am forced to add that just to keep you from thinking that -weakened by age-I have fallen prey to the clergy.

It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already. That's right--you heard me: dead again already. I mean, come on. How screwed up is your life (after- or otherwise) when you find yourself needing phrases like that?

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

I'm sure that I've already been dead.

I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.

Today something interesting happened. I died.

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.