China Mieville Quotes

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

I don't know what's on the other side.

'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.

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

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.

When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.

Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

It is not permitted that we should know everything.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in suspense; waiting - weightless, How does one face the faceless, adjust to nothing? Waiting implies something to wait for. Is there? There is One. One who knows... I rest my soul on that.

Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.

You just never know when you're going into eternity.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.