Top 100 Quotes About After Death
#2. What about life after death?" "What about death after life after death?
Douglas Coupland
#3. What can be feared when one is doing one's duty? I know the rage of my enemies. I know all their slanders; but when one only tries to do good to men and when one does not offend heaven, one can fear nothing, neither during life nor after death.
Voltaire
#4. Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
Lady Gregory
#5. Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.
Otto Von Bismarck
#6. A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.
Anselm Of Canterbury
#7. He lives in the hearts of those who trust in Him. Our confidence in life after death comes from these very truths.
Billy Graham
#8. For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson
#9. What happened after death? Where did you go? What did you do? The scariest possibility was that we might. just. stop.
Jodi Meadows
#10. Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery; I will read him again, and he will talk to me, not being dead, or gone. Is that life after death - mind living on paper and flesh living in offspring? Maybe. I do not know.
Sylvia Plath
#11. For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.
Mary Butts
#12. A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.
Theresa Villiers
#13. Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.
Umberto Eco
#14. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
#15. Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.
E.L. Doctorow
#16. (After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire is continuation of what they had in life no matter how misguided or degraded ... Will those people ever progress, even with our help?
Richard Matheson
#17. Life before birth is a dream, life after death is another dream. What comes between is only a mirage of the dreams.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#18. All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.
Octavia Butler
#19. It was not the philosophers and the prophets who taught us to believe in life after death; all they did was give form and spiritual content to an instinctive perception as old as man himself.
Muhammad Asad
#20. [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.
Diane Setterfield
#21. In stories about life after death, the soul often floats above the good-bye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital-room ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world.
Mitch Albom
#22. Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
Henry Ward Beecher
#23. From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.
Chuck Palahniuk
#24. Hell existed in the imagination of those who feared it, because of the guilt and shame they carried with them after death.
Andrea Barbosa
#25. Everybody hates death, fears death, but only those, the believers who know the life after death and the reward after death, would be the ones who will be seeking death.
Mohamed Atta
#26. It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.
Herman Melville
#27. The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.
Goswami Kriyananda
#28. Perdu wanted Anna to feel that she was in a nest. He wanted her to sense the boundless possibilities offered by books. They would always be enough. They would never stop loving their readers. They were a fixed point in an otherwise unpredictable world. In life. In love. After death.
Nina George
#29. I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies.
Albert Einstein
#30. After night comes day. After death comes life. Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone. You are loved.
Anna McPartlin
#31. A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#32. Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
Jessica Lange
#33. Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
Irvin D. Yalom
#34. Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified ... after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling.
Elizabeth Bowen
#35. Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrary, I conclude that God, being both just and merciful, will and can rectify all inequities in a life after death.
Henry Eyring
#36. Christians must return to the great story that has its fulfillment in life after death, so we may live and die well in the light of our extraordinary hope that enables us to embrace the ordinary lives God gives us here and now.
Michael Horton
#37. Given an opportunity I would like to sleep 24X7 for the rest of my life after death.
Amit Abraham
#38. There was a time in my demented youth
When somehow I suspected that the truth
About survival after death was known
To every human being: I alone
Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy
Of books and people hid the truth from me.
Vladimir Nabokov
#39. We can no longer believe that after death, if we have sinned, we shall enter hell. Hell has been acted out here on Earth in the time of Nazi Germany, when even the innocent went in their millions to a hell that beggars the imagination. A profound change in attitude has come about as a result.
Brian W. Aldiss
#41. The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior.
John Shelby Spong
#42. There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#43. I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less than possible concrete evidence of life after death - weren't they at least worth a visit?
Tom Shroder
#44. The thing you let Die within when you are Alive, will be carried with your Soul after Death.
Usha Cosmico
#45. One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
Alfred Hitchcock
#46. I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.
Swami Vivekananda
#47. A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.
Irma S. Rombauer
#48. Don't worry - so what if there is no life after death? There is life after Garp, believe me.
John Irving
#49. I need to fight for the preservation of the Earth type planets and its coexistence with worlds after death.-Banyan
Carolina Cody Aldaz
#50. So then, what do you believe in?
Sex and death. Two things that come once in my lifetime. But at least
after death you're not nauseous.
Woody Allen
#51. Everyone in the tribe believed in life after death and the spirit's ability to be reborn and live again in a new body. The undying soul was unquestioned. Did not the leaves fall off the tree and become part of the soil that nourished the tree which spouted new leaves?
M.J. Rose
#52. In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.
Steven Pinker
#53. The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
Isabel Allende
#57. All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying in a marriage or a partnership after it's over. And that's not life - it's living death.
Greg Iles
#58. I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.
Brenda Ueland
#59. Yes, to verify how far bruises may be produced after death. I saw him at it with my own eyes.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#60. We don't like to think about death; yet, worldwide, 3 people die every second, 180 every minute, and nearly 11,000 every hour. If the Bible is right about what happens to us after death, it means that more than 250,000 people every day go either to Heaven or Hell.9 David said, "Show me, O Lord, my
Randy Alcorn
#61. It would be fair in terms of justice that those who believe in 'Life After Death' live much less than those who do not believe in such a thing!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there's something within me that's ready to believe in life after death. And it's not the least bit interested in whether there's any sober evidence for it.
Carl Sagan
#63. Four parts of man, it was said, survive after death, namely, the soul, the spirit, the shadow, and the double.
Anonymous
#65. 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.
Carl Sagan
#66. Some call it energy, some say it's spirit, but I believe it's the love that people share that keeps them connected, even after death.
Tallulah Grace
#67. As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
Sam Harris
#68. Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a fast game. Human beings are powerful and skillful.
Frederick Lenz
#69. I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.
Martha Graham
#70. All mankind is sitting on Death Row. How we die or when is not the main issue, but where [we] go after death.
Billy Graham
#71. Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
Stanislav Grof
#72. For 3 days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but the phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson
#73. I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
Andrew Greeley
#74. The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
Rajneesh
#75. What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
Paracelsus
#76. The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.
N. T. Wright
#77. There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.
Jupiter Hammon
#78. In a letter, Martin Luther, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, wrote to Hans von Rechenberg in 1522 about the possibility that people could turn to God after death, asking: Who would doubt God's ability to do that?
Rob Bell
#79. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man's true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep's Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.
Franz Kafka
#80. Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream ... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.
Carl Jung
#81. Every one has a sum of physical and moral suffering to pay, and whoever does not settle it here below, defrays it after death; happiness is only lent, and must be repaid; its very phantoms are like duties paid in advance on a future succession of sorrows.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#82. To mitigate complications and aid in the procedure of devolution of assets after death, a 'will' has to be well planned and drafted.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#83. It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.
James Russell Lowell
#84. After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the surface of the earth and everything that has been a plant and an animal will be destroyed and transformed into a gaseous, volatile and mineral substance.
Louis Pasteur
#85. In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
Francis Crick
#86. I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet how few of those who have lived, even of those who have accomplished far more than I have, linger on in world memory for even a single century after death
Isaac Asimov
#87. Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.
Ellen Goodman
#88. The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#89. The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates.
Frederick Lenz
#90. The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
John Dryden
#91. If there is only nothingness after death, what's the point of this world?
Fuminori Nakamura
#92. What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate conception of it. Memories and Dreams,Carl Jung
C. G. Jung
#93. It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
Samuel Butler
#94. I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that's for sure.
Martina Navratilova
#96. In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at least know the answer when you were dead.
Douglas Adams
#97. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.
C.S. Lewis
#98. If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it.
[Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]
Martial
#99. Searching for our kindred dead isn't just a hobby. It is a fundamental responsibility for all members of the Church. We believe that life continues after death and that all will be resurrected.
James E. Faust
