Quotes About Afterlife

#1. It was like I'd stepped out into an afterlife. Only there were no angels.

Lucy Christopher

#2. If we don't understand the meaning of life, how can we understand the afterlife?

Debasish Mridha

#3. There's no such thing as a number of heartbeats. As long as your heart knows what forever means, it's possible that even in afterlife, it may still be beating.

Jessamine Verzosa

#4. I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

Margaret Millar

#5. The afterlife I'm not so sure about. So, I don't understand why you'd want to hurt other people in thinking that you'll go on in the afterlife to have bliss. I just don't understand it.

Charlie Benante

#6. I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like ... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'

Drew Barrymore

#7. It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.

Kate Atkinson

#8. Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

Louis D. Brandeis

#9. Afterlife exist in the unidentified substances.

Toba Beta

#10. Criticizing a person's ideas about God and the afterlife is thought to be impolitic in a way that criticizing his ideas about physics or history is not.

Sam Harris

#11. I believe that no matter what happens, or where we go, or if there's an afterlife, that we'll always be connected. Not even death can make me forget you, or forget that I love you.

J.A. Redmerski

#12. Reincarnation?"
He shrugged. "I've never seen any evidence that it's real. But I've never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here - and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.

Patricia Briggs

#13. A long time after, while the Afterlife continued on, the Universe was coming to its end. The expanding universe had long since started to slow, then it had started to collapse back on itself.

Larry Yoakum III

#14. Joe lulls the man into the afterlife, places his head gently on the ground, closes the lids over his empty eyes, retrieves his gun and continues to fight for a freedom he would never be fully entitled to.

Bernice L. McFadden

#15. We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.

Julian Huxley

#16. Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

Khalil

#17. Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Christopher Hitchens

#18. Life is funny. Why should the afterlife be any different?

Nick Shamhart

#19. To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

Tom Robbins

#20. Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.

Samuel Smiles

#21. The afterlife is mostly a dream state where you confront the good and evil within you. The text repeatedly explains that the images the deceased sees and the sounds one hears are hallucinations created by one's own thoughts.

Paul Lowe

#22. I'll never tire of her warm smile or bright green eyes. She's mine, in sickness and in health, till death do us part-scratch that- even in the afterlife she's mine and I'll fight any spirity-ghost bastard that attempts to fuck this up.

Skyla Madi

#23. Death is the start of a beginning, life is the start of the end, and the cycle continues forever."

AFTERLIFE - TIM I GURUNG/AUTHOR

Tim I. Gurung

#24. They believed that this world was fallen but that restitution would be provided elsewhere, in an afterlife. I believed that this world was fallen and that there was no afterlife.

James Wood

#25. What scares me least? The Afterlife. Really. Who cares? I'm going to be a good person no matter what is supposed to happen after I die.

Sherman Alexie

#26. The question that must be asked is if we are judged when we are in the process of moving from the nowlife to the afterlife, why aren't we judged or split up when we are moving from the beforelife to the nowlife.

M.B. Julien

#27. I was raised Catholic. I rejected it later on. I'm an outspoken atheist now. People say, 'Oh, it's a negative thing to be an atheist.' I don't agree. I think it's more optimistic to think that there is no God, no afterlife.

Anthony Jeselnik

#28. I think you killed me," he announced. "Then I hope there's an afterlife," she teased back.

Claire Thompson

#29. I think if I were to sit down in a bid for power, I would ask myself what I should control if I want to control the people. The answer would be sex. Money. And definitive knowledge of the afterlife. Then I'd make fantastically pleasant rules surrounding every one of them.

Dan Pearce

#30. I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

Frank McCourt

#31. I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.

Deborah Feldman

#32. The afterlife is all about overlapping planes. We all live in the same physical space, but on different metaphysical levels, and someone who's passed before you might have reached a consciousness you haven't yet.

Jodi Picoult

#33. If she didn't take her own life, that meant Rosa would be with her daughter in the afterlife.

K.A. Tucker

#34. I tend to believe in the traditional architecture of life and the afterlife. This world is a journey of discovery and purification. The next world consists of two destinations: One is a palace for the spirit and an endless kingdom of wonder, while the other is cold and dark and unthinkable.

Dean Koontz

#35. I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.

Woody Allen

#36. I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an afterlife. And I don't.

David Cronenberg

#37. My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.

Dana Gioia

#38. No matter what we survivors like to tell ourselves about the afterlife, when someone dies, everything is over.

Jodi Picoult

#39. If this world isn't good enough for us then an afterlife won't be enough ...

Fanny Howe

#40. Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There's nowhere to go. There's nothing else to be. There's no destination. It's not something to aim for in the afterlife. It's simply the quality of this moment.

Gautama Buddha

#41. Work for your afterlife as if you will die tomorrow, and work for this life as if you will live forever

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#42. There were human cultures that taught an afterlife of the blessed on mountaintops or in clouds in caverns or oases but she could not recall any in which if you were very very good when you died you went to the beach.

Carl Sagan

#43. Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.

Kurt Vonnegut

#44. I think there should be a constitutional amendment making it impossible for anyone to be president who believes in an afterlife.

Gore Vidal

#45. The idea that an afterlife had been invented to reassure people who couldn't face the finality of death was no more plausible than the idea that the finality of death had been invented to reassure people who couldn't face the nightmare of endless experience.

Edward St. Aubyn

#46. The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.

Aimee Carter

#47. I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.

Kurt Vonnegut

#48. So we have to internalize a very powerful reality that Allah has given us. We treasure all of our relationships so long as, they are something that is building us towards the akhirah (the afterlife). So I want to leave you with this picture, what Allah has in His possession is better.

Nouman Ali Khan

#49. Perps didn't always get their just deserts in this life. That was one of the reasons she kept believing in God, the hope that he would kick ass in the afterlife.

Tami Hoag

#50. Is there a God? Is there an afterlife? ... I think that now, more so than ever, people are much more willing to take the time and question what's out there.

Ryan Buell

#51. I'm raising the question of whether focusing on the afterlife beyond history can unintentionally but tragically lead to the abandonment of this earth and this life.

Brian D. McLaren

#52. Always ask the questions you want to, life is too short to know if you'll get a second chance to ask , and afterlife is probably too long to wonder what the answer may be.

Kaitlin Hollon

#53. After all the dangerous adventures I'd had, I couldn't die like this. Sadie would be devastated. Then, once she got over her grief, she'd track down my soul in the Egyptian afterlife and tease me mercilessly for how stupid I'd been.

Rick Riordan

#54. Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?

Leo Buscaglia

#55. We live on the planet of lost souls. That is the human problem. It is not some superficial thing that only relates to getting the right afterlife if you affirm the right doctrines. It has to do with the depth of the human condition, which Jesus identified as nobody else ever has.

John Ortberg

#56. So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident that the one who has buoyed us up in life will also buoy us up through death. We die into God. What more that means, I do not know. But that is all I need to know.

Marcus J. Borg

#57. They come to understand, with awe, the complexity of the compound identity that existed on the Earth. They conclude with a shudder that the Earthly you is utterly lost, unpreserved in the afterlife. You were all these ages, and you were none.

David Eagleman

#58. Love in the Afterlife [10w]
Maybe I'll love you in the afterlife.
This life, fuhgeddaboudit.

Beryl Dov

#59. I'd like to see a ghost. It would confirm there's an afterlife.

Marlon Wayans

#60. The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.

Anna Godbersen

#61. I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#62. We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

David Eagleman

#63. He walked out with the inner lightness of an author who has delivered. He wore a green tweed with flap pockets, cast into the river at Rosnaree, began his heart attack, and entered the Afterlife just after his fly was taken.

Niall Williams

#64. I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

Maurice Sendak

#65. I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled

John Green

#66. Most people call it The Book of the Dead," he told me. "Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It's like an Idiot's Guide to the Afterlife.

Rick Riordan

#67. Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

Michael Ignatieff

#68. Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the twain shall meet, in much the same way that Judeo-Christian theology presents its notion of the afterlife - there's a very clear and impermeable demarcation there.

Ron Currie Jr.

#69. how does religion weigh us down?" "If you believe in an afterlife where you will live forever in paradise, why bother going to so much trouble to make a paradise here and live forever in it now? That's a lot of work for nothing.

Jasper T. Scott

#70. Reuben says in many cultures, the wedding ceremony and all of it's rituals are much the same as a funeral: a transition into another phase of life.
It is like dying and being reborn, if you believe in the afterlife. If you don't believe in an afterlife, then you are toast

Suzanne Finnamore

#71. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Stephen Hawking

#72. When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

John Bolton

#73. The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.

Dean Cavanagh

#74. if there is an afterlife, then nothing here mattered, and if there isn't an afterlife, nothing here mattered.

Jonathan Tropper

#75. This is your life and the afterlife merged together in one perfect, endless existence.

Drew Magary

#76. If there is an afterlife, I want my soul intact. And then maybe I'll see you there.I smiled, somehow calm now that I was facing something inevitable. I was getting the good-bye I'd always wanted. - Nikki

Brodi Ashton

#77. The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

Richard Dawkins

#78. I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

Edvard Munch

#79. I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the fact that this wonderful life that we get here is it. And having hit 60, it's a good time to get resigned to these things and not be too nervous or upset - and enjoy what great times one can have.

David Gilmour

#80. I have a traditional view of the afterlife ... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.

Doug TenNapel

#81. Taking on the afterlife one soul at a time.

Tite Kubo

#82. See, my special gift is that I'm a mediator. I help guide the tortured souls of the newly dead to their afterlife destinations-wherever that happens to be-generally by cleaning up whatever messes they left behind when the croaked.

Meg Cabot

#83. It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is as Kipling put it, to fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.

Stephen Fry

#84. What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#85. People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.

Kurt Cobain

#86. The afterlife looks different to every soul," he said, "depending on whatthey believe. For that guy, Egypt must've made a strong impression when he was young , maybe."
"And if someone doesn't believe in any afterlife?" i asked.
Walt gave me a sad look. "Then that's what they experience.

Rick Riordan

#87. I kissed you! I witched you!
I laugh at the afterlife's dark.

Marina Tsvetaeva

#88. I think you should enjoy this life that you are given on this earth because we really don't know what it is in the afterlife. We can definitely prove that this life is this life here because we wake up every day and do the same thing that we do.

Charlie Benante

#89. a parallel world than a religious kind of afterlife. In fact, he was especially critical of religious leaders, whom Twain felt had been using the fear of death and threats of hell to control the minds of their followers. Over the Ouija board, Twain told Hutchings:

Richard Bullivant

#90. Yet surely no afterlife could be cruel enough to accept not just her soul but all her agony.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#91. By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

Michel Onfray

#92. We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live.

Sorin Cerin

#93. Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

Henry David Thoreau

#94. It is our diffidence about the afterlife that leads us to religion

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#95. I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.

Julia Sawalha

#96. I think if there is a God, it's very important that he has a sense of humour - otherwise, you are in for a very miserable afterlife.

Rory Bremner

#97. You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.

Zak Bagans

#98. While many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as a blessing and gift from God.

H.W. Charles

#99. I keep wondering if there is an afterlife, and if there is will they be able to break a twenty?

Woody Allen

#100. Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

Al-Ghazali