Mark Helprin Quotes

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.

But you're dead,' said Harry. 'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. 'Then... am I dead too?' 'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

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

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

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

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.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

The true key of the universe is love.

I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

I shall not altogether die.

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

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.