Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

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

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

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

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

I always thought that cemeteries gave me some sense of perspective