Neil MacGregor Quotes

I don't believe in the afterlife.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

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.

'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.

When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

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.

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

It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

I believe in life after death.

I believe humans have a soul that continues to exist after they die, but I don't know what form that will take.

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

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?

Corporeal death is not the whole story.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

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

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

If life after death really does exist, everyone probably gets what they expect to get, because that's the only thing I can think of that would be fair.

I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

As a species, we've always been interested in what happens when we're no longer around, all the way back to 'Revelations' in 'The New Testament.'

Death is a reality, and one day I'm not going to be here anymore, and whatever's next might not be that bad either.

When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.