Neil Gaiman Quotes

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in someone's ear telling them that things will be alright.

tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.

There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

I’ve been dead for seven years, that’s as warm as they get.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

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.

The living are just the dead on holiday

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.