Lucretius Quotes

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

Souls are designed to fit inside a body.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

I believe in life after death.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

You are permanent, but this life is not.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that-the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Life, it's life we deal with...He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live.

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

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

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

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

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.