History Quotes / CessationOfExistence

->'''Sibrand''': No, please. Don't do this.
->'''Altaïr''': You are afraid?
->'''Sibrand''': Of course I am afraid!
->'''Altaïr''': But you'll be safe now, held in the arms of your God.
->'''Sibrand''': Have my brothers taught you nothing? I know what waits for me, for all of us.
->'''Altaïr''': If not your God, then what?
->'''Sibrand''': Nothing. Nothing waits. And that is what I fear....
->'''Altaïr''': You do not believe?
->'''Sibrand''': How could I, given what I know, what I have seen? Our Treasure was the proof!
->'''Altaïr''': Of what?
->'''Sibrand''': That this life is all we have....

-> ''It would be swell''
-> ''To see some folk burn in hell.''
-> ''But when they go''
-> ''It's just as pleasant to know''
-> ''That the dead only quickly decay.''
-> ''They don't go about being born and reborn''
-> ''And rising and falling like souffle.''
-> ''The dead only quickly decay.''

->''The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse''
->''- The good not done, the love not given, time''
->''Torn off unused - nor wretchedly because''
->''An only life can take so long to climb''
->''Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never;''
->''But at the total emptiness for ever,''
->''The sure extinction that we travel to''
->''And shall be lost in always. Not to be here,''
->''Not to be anywhere, ''
->''And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.''

->''- When a human dies, they go to Mu (nothingness).''
->''- Once a human has gone to Mu, they cannot come back.''

->'''Guildenstern:''' Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't ''not'' be on a boat.
->''(beat)''
->'''Rosencrantz:''' I've frequently not been on boats.

->'''Altair''': You are afraid?

->'''Altair''': But you'll be safe now, held in the arms of your God.

->'''Altair''': If not your God, then what?

->'''Altair''': You do not believe?

->'''Altair''': Of what?

-->-- The final two rules of the DeathNote

-->-- '''[[Literature/TheBible Ecclesiastes 9:5-6]]'''

->''Damned souls such as yourself can die in [[AHellOfATime Hell]], but [[SnapBack are always back to normal the next morning]]. it's so they can be tortured to death repeatedly. The same is not true for [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], however. For us, death is permanent...and there is no afterlife for demons.''

-->--'''RogerEbert'''

-->--'''Memnarch''', ''{{Magic The Gathering}}''

-->-- '''Azrael''', ''{{Dogma}}''

-->-- '''Sakido''', ''SlightlyDamned''

-->-- '''Hannelore''', ''QuestionableContent''

-->-- '''MarkTwain''' (attributed)

->A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

-->--'''WoodyAllen'''

-->--''AssassinsCreedI''

-->-- '''{{Socrates}}'''

-->--''AssassinsCreed''

->''When you're five years old and scared of dying, knowing the best you can hope for is a burst of dopamine and some pleasent hallucinations before oblivion isn't very comforting.''

-->--'''Memnarch''', ''{{Magic: The Gathering}}''

->''"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."''

-->--'''Memnarch, {{Magic: The Gathering}}'''