Marcel Proust Quotes

I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.

One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you.

As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

Corporeal death is not the whole story.

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

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

I live for now, not for what happens after I die.

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 we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

I expect my immortality will last about six seconds after my funeral.

Death is just a continuation of life.

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.

We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

You live you die and death not ends it.

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.