John Banville Quotes

I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.

Death is the most blessed dream.

Once you're dead, your worries are over.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

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.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

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

Nobody on this planet will ever be able to answer the question, 'What happens when you die?'

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

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

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.