Quotes tagged ‘Life After Death’

“As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable -- the idea that we simply die and nothing happens. Now, as to what does go on, that is something else. I am religio…”

— Stephen King, web.archive.org

“I have been a monster, I will always be a monster and after I'm dead, I will be a dead monster!”

— Adam Green, Oderus Urungus, Dave Brockie, imdb.com

“Messenger: How do I look? There are no mirrors on this side. Adam: Fine, you look fine. Messenger: Yeah? Barbara: Fine. Messenger: Thanks, I've been feeling a little flat. [he laughs and goes through the crevice in the filing room]”

— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Messenger, Carmen Filpi, imdb.com

“Juno: [as Adam and Barbara come back to the afterlife] You two have really screwed up! I received word that you allowed yourselves to be photographed, and you let Betelgeuse out and didn't put him back, and you let Otho get hold of the handbook! Adam: Handbook? When? Juno: [rolls her eyes] Never tru…”

— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Juno, Sylvia Sidney, imdb.com

“I've grown familiar with villains that live in my head. They beg me to write them so I'll never die when I'm dead.”

— Halsey, open.spotify.com

“Why should I sail with any of you? Four of you tried to kill me in the past. One of you succeeded.”

— Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp, amazon.com

“Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. Do the dead find peace beyond the rattle of the world? What peace is there for us whose best love cannot return them even for a day?”

— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com

“In another world we shall understand it all.”

— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com

“Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.”

— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com

“What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me.”

— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com

“I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like the sound of Dutch people speaking Dutch. And now...I don't even get a battle. I don't get a fight.”

— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com

“I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.”

— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com

“I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life.”

— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com

“That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost. I don't believe we return to haunt or comfort the living or anything, but I think something becomes of us.”

— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com