Death Mystery Quotes

People continue to fear dying, only because no one ever has.

Whatever happens when we die, it would be really weird if it was what we had expected. Even if you were a lifelong Christian believer, it would be kind of weird if there actually were pearly gates.

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

It's hard to speculate as a human about the afterlife because you're not in it. And it's probably as wild and wacky as you could imagine. The idea that people have figured it out, I'm not sure if I can fathom that.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.

Anyone who tells you that they know, they just know what happens when you die, I promise you, you dont. How can I be so sure? Because I dont know and you do not possess mental powers that I do not.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

I think the reason people investigate the paranormal is because we are trying to overcome the mystery of death. That in and of itself is something that lives within every living person, everybody. We all experience death and we are forced to find out if that is just the end, which it is not. So what we do is, when we are experiencing a situation that maybe scary, it's almost now a sense of relief.

I was obsessed with not knowing what happened after you were dead. And I sat or kneeled for a whole day with my head against the wall, trying to figure it out. But I couldn't, and I just said, 'Okay.' And then it was nothingness.

Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

The thing about death is it's so final, isn't it, really? As far as we know... Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.

The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.

Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.

Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.

It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.

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

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.