Cessation of Existence/Quotes
Now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
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Death is nothing to us, since while we exist, death is not present, and whenever death is present, we do not exist.
—Epicurus
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I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.
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Eternal nothingness is O.K. if you're dressed for it.
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All memory of your existence will be wiped from reality. You will die, and no one will mourn.
—Memnarch, Magic: The Gathering
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Human, have you ever been to Hell? I think not. I'd rather not exist than go back to that, and if everyone has to go down with me, so be it!
—Azrael, Dogma
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Death's central horror is oblivion. The terrifying absolute dying of the light. Death has dominion because it is not only the start of nothing; it's the end of everything.
—Ronald Dworkin
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Damned souls such as yourself can die in Hell, but are always back to normal the next morning. it's so they can be tortured to death repeatedly. The same is not true for demons, however. For us, death is permanent...and there is no afterlife for demons.
—Sakido, Slightly Damned
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When you're five years old and scared of dying, knowing the best you can hope for is a burst of dopamine and some pleasant hallucinations before oblivion isn't very comforting.
—Hannelore, Questionable Content
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It would be swell —The Gothic Archies, "The Dead Only Quickly"
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The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse —Philip Larkin, "Aubade"
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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
—Mark Twain (attributed)
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All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived.
—Miles Vorkosigan, "Cryoburn"
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