Alan Watts Quotes

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

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

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

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

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.

Death is only a small interruption.

Where do you go when you die? The same place you were before you were born; nowhere! It's over!