Death is the easiest of all things after it and the hardest of all things before it.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden mysterious realm on the contrary it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

Families survive one way or another. You have a tie a connection that exists long after death through many lifetimes.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

After the writer's death reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

The ideal death I think is what was the ideal Victorian death you know with your grandchildren around you a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Smiles tears of all my life! - and if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

And yet I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death reincarnation and karma it has very serious implications for our behavior.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough I only started to get to know her after John's death.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

If what you do is being threatened as a profession that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death if he can live on after he's dead then maybe he was a great man.

Personally I would be delighted if there were a life after death especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college getting an entry level magazine job at 21 working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.