Quotes About Living After Death

#1. Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

Ovid

#2. If there was a hell beyond what he knew, he would welcome it. He had no reason not to.
After all, a life without living was simply a death without dying. What more was there to fear or hate but life, endless life, with no respite?

Ais

#3. Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

Orhan Pamuk

#4. Who knows until we experience it? I think that heaven and reincarnation are both ways of making us feel better about what happens to people's souls after death. I hope at least one of them is true.

Cat Patrick

#5. The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

Paul Kurtz

#6. I want to go on living after my death!

Anne Frank

#7. Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#8. 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

#9. Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the end? Why not at least try and explore the possibility that there may be a life after?

Sogyal Rinpoche

#10. Do you mistake me?
I am speaking of living,
of moving from one moment into
the next, and into the
one after, breathing
death in the spring air ...

Denise Levertov

#11. Death is not easily escaped, try it who will; but every living soul among the children of men dwelling upon the earth goeth of necessity unto his destined place, where the body, fast in its narrow bed, sleepeth after feast.

Chauncey Brewster Tinker

#12. The wealth of some people is here on earth. The wealth of other people is somewhere afar from the earth. Whatever the wealth may be, we must think of a wealth that is distinctive

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. The best part about living with Mamaw was that I began to understand what made her tick. Until then, I had resented how rarely we traveled to Kentucky after Mamaw Blanton's death. The

J.D. Vance

#14. ...there is a somewhere else after this, where everyone drinks elysia and lives forever.

Jessica Khoury

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. The kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. t

John Green

#18. I wish to go on living even after my death.

Anne Frank

#19. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm so grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop myself and to express all that's inside me!

Anne Frank

#20. It's a strange experience, dying. People talk about how it creeps over you like a warm blanket. That's not true. It starts out warm, but then it hits you like a bucket of icy water after stepping out of a sweat lodge. Then it's all black like a void. I would know. I died and lived to tell about it.

Morgan Chalfant

#21. We write to go on living, after we have died.

Jenim Dibie

#22. Putting a body in a box as a keepsake for mortals to cling to long after everything that was that person is gone - it turns my stomach. Graveyards are for the living, not the dead.

Heather Brewer

#23. It does not matter if we are forgotten; what matters is the effect we have on those around us and those who come after us. What matters is how our own lives affect the larger, perpetual community of the living.

Lynn Schooler

#24. Gentlemen living after me! Since you are reading this little letter of mine, I have already departed from you and gone on to learn the secret of death, which remains concealed from your eyes behind seven seals. I am free, while you must carry on living in torment and fear.

Boris Akunin

#25. The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.

Carrie Ryan

#26. Is that life after death - mind living on paper and flesh living in offspring?

Sylvia Plath

#27. Mamie told me living rooms were once known as death rooms, back when funerals were a home matter. After mortuaries came into fashion, there was no need for keeping bodies on ice at home, and the death room was rechristened the living room.

Sarah Jude

#28. There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes.

Agatha Christie

#29. Two days after your death, in a dream you text me many times. I read the first of them. ME! And so are the living comforted.

Marion Coutts

#30. What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone's memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memories were the only things that made aging bearable, a way of reverting to better, simpler days.

Andrea Lochen

#31. To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

Jose Saramago

#32. After all, a life without living was simply a death without dying. What more was there to fear or hate but life, endless life, with no respite?
(Sin)

Santino Hassell

#33. As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors.

Miguel Serrano

#34. I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Anne Frank

#35. I didn't know who to
believe
but
one thing I do
know: when a man is
living
many claim relationships
that are hardly
so
and after he dies, well,
then it's everybody's
party.

Charles Bukowski

#36. The living must look after one another, he thought. The worst possible outcome is to die without having lived.

Hakan Nesser

#37. Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.

Enzo Ferrari

#38. I want to go on living even after death!

Anne Frank

#39. Look at another person while living; the soul is not visible, only the body which it animates. Therefore, merely because after death the soul is not visible is no demonstration that it does not still live.

Richard Jefferies

#40. What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

Aubrey De Grey

#41. Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint on future human action consciously and slowly while realizing that they are likely to continue for generations after one is gone.

Frederick Buell

#42. Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

Dinesh D'Souza

#43. Death is awful fierce. After it cuts those still living into little pieces, grief comes along to watch them bleed.

Sandi Morgan Denkers

#44. Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

Dean Koontz

#45. Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived before on the earth thousands of years ago or on some other planet. They say we have forgotten it. Some say they remember their past lives.

James Joyce

#46. Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows
When, after death, man's honor is his guard.
So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie,
Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

Ovid

#47. If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with - while they wait for their death.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#48. The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music has been turned off.

Fern Schumer Chapman

#49. After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

Ernst Toller