George Saunders Quotes

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.

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

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

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

The living are just the dead on holiday

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

"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?"

You are dead- what am I speaking to?

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.

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

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.

What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.

Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.

Death is the separation of soul from body.

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

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.