Conor Oberst Quotes

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

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.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

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'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

Jews, Christians, and Muslims all profess belief in immortality, but the veneration paid to the first century of life is proof that they truly believe only in those hundred years, for they destine all the rest, throughout eternity, to rewarding or punishing what one did when alive.

Death is the separation of soul from body.

I believe in life after death.

Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.

God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!

No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.