John Donne Quotes

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

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

I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death - being dead, being a soul - in a new way.

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

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.

Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.

Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

We used to think earthly life was horrible and paradise awaited us when we died. Now we have made earthly life into a paradise and we fear death.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

I don't want to die.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

My attitude about death is, going into the next room, and it's a room that the rest of us can't get into because we don't have the key. But when we do get the key, we'll go in there, and we'll see one another again, in some shape or form or whatever. It's not the end.

Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about 'innatality' - about having not yet been born - yet this is something we would have to regard as the other aspect of the human soul. We are just as unborn as we are immortal.