Ellen Muth Quotes

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.

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

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.'

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?

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.

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

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

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.

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.'

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

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.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.

The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

Corporeal death is not the whole story.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.