Czeslaw Milosz Quotes

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.

I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

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.

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

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.

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

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

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

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

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.'

What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you

What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or rather, you will retrace your steps through time, through all the days and nights, myths and years of your life, until you go out through the great, round, silver gate you entered by." What will I find on the other side?" The home of the music you've sometimes faintly heard in the distance, but by then you'll be part of it. You yourself will be a note in its mighty harmonies.

Death is only passing through God's other door.

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

I have good hope that there is something after death.

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

I can assure you that those who have already passed have not only made it to the Other Side, but are in a state of bliss.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?

Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.