Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.

We die, and we do not die.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

I am the father of the Centuries, the mysterious repository of fame; and the unknown Eternity was my mother; Infinity marks the borders of my realm; no sepulcher will ever hold me, for I am mightier than Death; my vision scans the past and the future, and through my hands the presence flows.

Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

You live you die and death not ends it.

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.

I know that there is no such thing as death, because our spirit has always been alive and always will be. We are as eternal as God who created us.

I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'

I want to go on living even after death!

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take music into, or to attempt to do that.

You have to know the reality and the reality is that we are eternal.

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.

It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

I want to go on living after my death!

Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we don't die. The cessation of the body is an illusion, and like a magician sweeping aside a curtain, the soul reveals what lies beyond.

There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.

When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.