Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

I died. Which is fantastic, because I have died already; I have been there and come back. I am completely recovered, thank you.

When you pass from death into the life, you become a new person, and so everything you do flows from that.

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!

When you die, are you ever allowed to come back?" "Only if you had your hand stamped.

Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see if we're able to live among the living, walk among the living.'

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

Who ever said that one was born just once?

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

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

Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.