Top 100 Quotes About Life After Death
#1. Then there's the kind of zombie I've become now: the one who has lost everything - his brain, his heart, his light, his direction. He wanders the world, bumping into this, tripping over that, but keeps going and going. That is life after death.
Adam Silvera
#2. After I die if I am buried I will rot. If I am burnt I will become ash but if my body is donated I will live to give life and happiness to many."
"Live life after death - pledge to donate your body.
Amit Abraham
#3. 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.
Hedy Lamarr
#4. In the New Testament outside the Gospels and the beginning of Acts, again and again, the fact of Jesus' resurrection is closely linked to our own ultimate resurrection, which isn't life after death - it's life after life after death.
N. T. Wright
#5. Day by day his sister grew
Paler with the wound
She could not see or touch or feel, as I dressed it
Each day with her blue Breton jacket.
- from Life After Death
Ted Hughes
#6. We both had to reject the concept of life after death, even if we weren't brought up to believe in it, because all human cultures are steeped in the idea.
John Varley
#7. Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did.
Jenny Uglow
#8. There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now.
Greg M. Epstein
#9. In my despair I remember
that there is life after death;
there is life after death
and I have no problem.
But I ask:
Oh my God,
is there life before death?
Mourid Barghouti
#10. secular people don't believe in life after death, but rather, they believe in life before death.
Phil Zuckerman
#11. The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.
Neil Kinnock
#12. We who believe in Divine Providence, in life after death, in salvation and resurrection; we, of all people, when faced with catastrophe, must go on with courage, faith, and hope.
Benedict Groeschel
#13. Every time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing that there's life after death.
Anonymous
#14. If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
Blaise Pascal
#15. People believe in life after death because they are afraid of dying... But I do not believe in life after death BECAUSE I am afraid of dying.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#16. Is that life after death - mind living on paper and flesh living in offspring?
Sylvia Plath
#17. Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.
Tim O'Brien
#18. Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?
Bette Midler
#19. Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!
Madeline Kahn
#20. How tragic lives there are in this world! But there is a greater tragedy: People who have very hard lives often believe that they will have a better life after death! Losing hope in life and running after an absolute illusion is even a bigger tragedy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. The unconscious psyche believes in life after death
Carl Jung
#22. It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
Jeanne Moreau
#23. The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunger for life after death(on Russian slave laborers.)
Sophie Scholl
#24. I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.
Nikki Sixx
#25. Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.
Dinesh D'Souza
#26. I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.
Hans Kung
#27. If our central concern is finding life after death, there is a chance we will not find life before death.
Michael Hidalgo
#28. I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.
Harvey Fierstein
#29. I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#30. I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.
Mike Dirnt
#31. Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death
though they say it's virtually impossible to get decent Chinese food.
David Letterman
#32. Someone asked me if I really believed there was life after death. I replied: Do you really believe there is any life before death?
Marshall McLuhan
#33. Life after death. Sex after marriage. While claims are made for the existence of both, the sources are oftentimes unreliable and the evidence, at best, anecdotal.
J.D. Lexx
#34. Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death.
Shane Claiborne
#35. The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#36. I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.
Sylvia Plath
#37. So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
Victoria Jackson
#38. The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#39. I'm always going to be with you, you know. As long as you remember me, I will exist. Memory is a form of existence, life after death.
Andrea Speed
#40. If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.
Desmond Tutu
#41. Sydney did not believe in life after death, but in her experience, admitting this could lead to long and complicated discussions in which people seemed to think that since she did not believe in God or the afterlife, there was nothing to stop her from becoming an ax murderer.
Maureen F. McHugh
#42. Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
Albert Camus
#43. Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.
Anonymous
#44. Perhaps there is no life after death ... there's just Los Angeles.
Richard Anderson
#45. I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.
David Ortiz
#46. It may be that the numinous spirit of the written word does not perish and so, too, bestows life after death.
Lisa See
#47. All Egypt is obsessed with death! And do you know why, Renisenb? Because we have eyes in our bodies, but none in our minds. We cannot conceive of a life other than this one - of a life after death. We can visualize only a continuation of what we know. We have no real belief in a God.
Agatha Christie
#48. What about life after death?" "What about death after life after death?
Douglas Coupland
#49. He lives in the hearts of those who trust in Him. Our confidence in life after death comes from these very truths.
Billy Graham
#50. 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
#51. Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.
E.L. Doctorow
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Given an opportunity I would like to sleep 24X7 for the rest of my life after death.
Amit Abraham
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Don't worry - so what if there is no life after death? There is life after Garp, believe me.
John Irving
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.
N. T. Wright
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Do you believe in an afterlife? Do your personal beliefs include a life after death? - no matter how they phrase their snotty test, do the following. Simply look them in the eye, snort derisively, and retort, Frankly, only a provincial ignoramus would even believe in death.
Chuck Palahniuk
#76. Whatever life after death is, being with Christ which is far better, being in Paradise like the thief, etc, the many rooms where we go immediately ... that is the temporary place. The ultimate life after life after death is the resurrection in God's new world.
N. T. Wright
#77. Why Is It That When You Wash Two Socks You Only End Up With One? Is There Life After Death? and Where Did The Other Sock Go?
Margaret Weis
#78. Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.
Stanley Hauerwas
#79. Life after death, it seems, can be a serious distraction not only from the ultimate life after life after death, but also from life before death.
N. T. Wright
#80. It is not about "life after death" as such. Rather, it's a way of talking about being bodily alive again after a period of being bodily dead. Resurrection is a second-stage postmortem life: "life after 'life after death.
N. T. Wright
#81. Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.
Billy Graham
#82. The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#83. Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#84. Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.
Russell M. Nelson
#85. I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.
Natalie Angier
#86. If we devoted as much effort to investigating the dead as we do to building the weapons that make them dead, we'd know a lot more about life after death." "Dead
Jason Arnopp
#87. I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that's for sure.
Martina Navratilova
#88. Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.
May Sarton
#89. Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families.
Russell M. Nelson
#90. I don't think hell exists. I happen to believe in life after death but I don't think it's got a thing to do with reward and punishment. Religion is always in the control business and that's something which people don't really understand.
John Shelby Spong
#91. There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?
Robert A. Heinlein
#92. Ready to meet my best friend, then?"
I clipped my vest together in front and smiled tightly. "Should I bring a bottle of wine? Any taboo topics? Politics, life after death?"
"Yeah, just stay away from that one entirely.
Lia Habel
#93. If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need to resign. You wouldn't come in late on your job all the time, but I venture to guess that some of you do it on Sunday.
Bill Wilson
#94. And anyway, it's not as though I'll never see Mum again, is it?
J.K. Rowling
#95. O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
Leonardo Da Vinci
#96. I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.
Ellen Glasgow
#97. The afterlife is not so much a place but rather what happens to me, to the others left behind, after Ben's life.
Sophie Hardcastle
#98. I wanted my eternity in carbon molecules, in being part of the trees, the sky, air itself
Ruth Ahmed
#99. The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death. You're always saying you want to give Baz the stories he deserves ... So you're going to kill him off? Isn't the best revenge supposed to be a life well-lived? The punk-rock way to end it would be to let them live happily ever after.
Rainbow Rowell
#100. And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.
Carl Jung