Andrew Greeley Quotes

If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.

Hope is only the love of life.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.

Looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished.

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.