Top 100 The Afterlife Quotes
#1. Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.
Brown nodded. "I think this is it.
Stephen King
#2. Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.
Don Yaeger
#3. If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the afterlife. You're missing out on the afterlife you looked forward to in your last existence by worrying about your next life. This is what happens after you die. Take a look.
Brad Warner
#4. Over time, my belief in many things has wavered: marriage, the afterlife, Woody Allen.
Lena Dunham
#5. 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
#6. I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.
Sylvia Kristel
#7. God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.
Stephen King
#8. All three explanations - eternal life, reincarnation, and nothingness - are descriptions of the same reality.
John K. Brown
#9. If there is an after, I hope it's not dark. And I hope you can remember. I'd hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin' here, or not even knowing that I'd ever had anything different.
Richard Bachman
#10. The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#11. RIDER FOR THE FUNERAL OF AMY SCHUMER: . . . The actual body of AMY SCHUMER should be propped up on a chair in the northwest corner of the room, wearing aviator sunglasses and her trusted snow hat that reads, 'No Coffee, No Workee," a motto in life that she will continue to stand by in the afterlife.
Amy Schumer
#12. Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
Madame De Stael
#13. People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.
Timothy Keller
#14. The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.
Raquel Cepeda
#15. There is no place so dark that light cannot lead the way.
Slade Combs
#16. Human knowledge hasn't been complete enough to understand the afterlife if it hasn't been through the valley of death.
Toba Beta
#17. The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.
Craig Venter
#18. George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with
Justin Spring
#19. He wasn't dead. Unless the afterlife was just a crappy room of blackness.
James Dashner
#20. What the winners of finite games achieve is not properly an afterlife but an afterworld, not continuing existence but continuing recognition of their titles.
James P. Carse
#21. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.
Erma Bombeck
#22. I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.
Saoirse Ronan
#23. Now is the time to create living relationships with our loved ones who have died.
Lynn Rollins Stull
#24. The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
Dean Koontz
#25. I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.
David Eagleman
#26. Believe that you are someone worth saving.
Slade Combs
#27. Troy sat down next to Sherri, examining her tray. "Are you going to eat that?" he asked. "I know what went in there." He smiled, looking mysterious. Troy's mother worked in the cafeteria.
Sherri immediately dropped the turkey roll.
Amy LaPalme
#28. I promise to love you forever in this life and wherever we go in the afterlife, because I know I can't go on in any life unless you're in it too.
J.A. Redmerski
#29. Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard, however, since this endearing quality frequently masquerades as wit.
Mike Corbett
#30. Vengeance for the murdered supposed the dead enjoyed sufficient afterlife to appreciate their efforts. The dead enjoyed nothing of the kind. The dead didn't go anywhere, except, if you were the monster who'd taken their lives and devoured them, into you.
Glen Duncan
#32. The heaven-and-hell framework has four central elements: the afterlife, sin and forgiveness, Jesus's dying for our sins, and believing.
Marcus J. Borg
#33. Failure taught him that he could have made the right choice. I could have tried.
H. L. Balcomb
#34. She would have asked Noah to confirm this, but he was notoriously disinterested in the details of his afterlife. (Once, Gansey had tersely asked, "Don't you care how it is that you're still here?" and Noah had answered with remarkable acumen, "Do you care how your kidneys work?")
Maggie Stiefvater
#35. His Nana's prayers were moving toward his mother like little butterflies of thoughts wrapped in the most beautiful colors. Each prayer looked like a mini-rainbow.
H. L. Balcomb
#36. My life will never be extravagant; it will be simple, but I promise it will be filled with love, laughter, and stars released from jars, when I catch enough fireflies. ~Elijah Dirk "Epitaphs from the Afterlife
Autumn Rosen
#37. If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
Al-Ghazali
#38. The cyclist hit me, and it's vile after my life ends in the afterlife. Lots of incense, resin, apes and giraffe-tails--all acquired tastes. I don't like that kind of thing.
Diane Williams
#39. We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer.
Steve Earle
#40. Sometimes I Wonder Where Those Spirits Go After Departing From The Bodies, Then I Realize, They Are All Around Us, In The Nature, Full of Spirits In Different Forms ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#41. I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark
Stephen Hawking
#42. My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
Seamus Heaney
#43. Since there is absolutely no logical reason to assume there is an afterlife, I decided to make the life I have now as much fun as possible.
Ricky Gervais
#44. George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.
Michael Palin
#45. That's what you people do, isn't it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.
Michael Monroe
#46. We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?
Noel Coward
#47. Anyone who has physically incarnated on the Earth is energetically connected to the people they love, and to the Earth, indefinitely...
Jonni Gray
#48. In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.
Agona Apell
#49. Life is a " vale of tears" a period of trial and suffering, an unpleasant but necessary preparation for the afterlife where alone man could expect to enjoy happiness - Archibald T. MacAllister (The Inferno; Dante Alighieri translated by John Ciardi)
Dante Alighieri
#50. Like Jesus said, "The kingdom of heaven is within," which seems, once and for all, to bust wide open the daft afterlife view of heaven as some kind of Lando Calrissian cloud kingdom that you can get into like Alton Towers if you acquire enough good-boy tokens.
Russell Brand
#51. I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.
Muriel Spark
#52. Cauldron save you.
Mother hold you.
Pass through the gates, and smell that immortal land of milk and honey.
Fear no evil.
Feel no pain.
Go, and enter eternity.
Sarah J. Maas
#53. She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way; but west Texas had given her something more concrete upon which to dread the afterlife.
Cherie Priest
#54. I still think that, sometimes, 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.
John Green
#55. It thanked her for the life she breathed into hits being; without her influence, this little being would not have been in the Garden of Glory.
H. L. Balcomb
#56. The first things I saw upon dying were Persephone's breasts and nipples. Or at least one nipple, but there was definitely a nipple.
Something seemed wrong about that being the first thing I saw in the afterlife.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#57. I snapped to consciousness with the incandescent realization that somewhere, deep in our dreams, or deep in unconsciousness, or deep in the afterlife, all conflicts and acrimonies are resolved. That it was consciousness that so unrelentingly afflicted us with suffering.
Rex Pickett
#58. And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
Barry McGuire
#59. What if in the afterlife you did not meet God? Could you still believe in God?
Ross Friedman
#60. The idea of quick methods to success in this life or the Afterlife is a deception, unrealistic and unislamic.
Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar
#61. souls of dead heroes to their glorious afterlife in the Halls of Avandoor, if you believe in that sort of thing.
Robert Kroese
#62. We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.
Susan Jacoby
#63. Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.
Mitch Albom
#64. We neither fear death nor look forward to it, but revere it as a most exalted experience. Life, death and the afterlife are all part of our path to perfect oneness with God.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#65. It's everything and nothing ... It's like the absent moment between night and day.
Sophie Hardcastle
#66. Why would God create a defective product? Why would a God who gave me free will require any certain belief? Why would a God powerful enough to create the universe need me to justify His existence? Why would He want me seeking favor with Him to manipulate my entrance to some afterlife?
David W. Earle
#67. I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.
Anthony Trollope
#68. The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.
James G. Frazer
#69. No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny.
Mike Corbett
#70. If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones
Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly
Because it dissolves in water.
W. H. Auden
#71. Since in Heaven we'll finally experience life at its best, it would be more accurate to call our present existence the beforelife rather than to call what follows the afterlife.
Randy Alcorn
#72. She was pretty sure that if you died in the South, you'd have a layover in Atlanta before you reached the afterlife.
Ilona Andrews
#73. We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.
Greg Graffin
#74. The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.
Slade Combs
#75. He wouldn't be the one to prove to the world that there was an afterlife, but he hoped to be the one to prove it to himself, though he would have a few stern questions for a Creator who made people haunt libraries.
Thomm Quackenbush
#76. What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#77. She smiled as she imagined that the sun's last rays were flames from a distant dragon.
Kim Cormack
#78. On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
Rachel Swirsky
#79. The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community.
Kurt Vonnegut
#81. I'm the god of funerals. I know every death custom in the world - how to die properly, how to prepare the body and soul for the afterlife. I live for death."
"You must be fun at parties," I said.
Rick Riordan
#83. I have been capable of some mischief in the past. I know what rebellion feels like. Everyone and everything is provided with a destiny, but there is no obligation whatsoever to fulfill it. Some just prefer to ignore the humming of their soul.
E.A.A. Wilson
#84. The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#85. The afterlife is one of death's best kept secrets. . . and I was living proof of that.
Ireland Gill
#86. With no evidence for an afterlife, we should recognize the true value of our current lives as our one and only shot at happiness. Wasting it on unfounded claims and ancient myths is an absolute tragedy.
Armin Navabi
#87. By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion , in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what the afterlife would be. All made guesses, and then established these as articles of faith . Though, in a sense, some were near the mark, if you accept their revelations as symbolic .
Philip Jose Farmer
#88. I am a part of you, and the part of me, that is a part of you, will always be a part of you. That part will never leave you.
Deni Hankin
#89. Frankly, the whole afterlife didn't seem very well organized, in my opinion.
E.J. Copperman
#91. The question of afterlife disappears, when we start to recognize the fact that we did not existed before our birth and the same will happen after death.
Sipendr
#92. There is a place called 'heaven' where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#93. I hope that in the afterlife we will get a chance, each of us, to say our sorries to the people we have wronged.
J.M. Coetzee
#94. I will take my leave of you, but I will remember you always because you are the ones who encouraged me and lifted me up high. I will remember you forever, forever, even in the afterlife.
Samia Gamal
#95. Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
Joseph De Maistre
#96. I told them that I'd need a larger casket."
I don't want to know. "Why?"
"Because I plan on spending the majority of my afterlife turning over in my grave while Elizabeth Adler rubs the fact that she already has three grandkids and a handsome son-in-law in my face.
Adrianne Brooks
#97. I'm sorry for hurting you. I know I did. I'm most likely dead now, and I guess if there's any kind of fairness in the afterlife I'm probably in hell getting roasted. But if that's where I am, I want you to know, I still love you. Always did. Love, Caine
Michael Grant
#98. Fine, let's have the "We're-safe-in-here-it's-INSANE-for-you-to-go-out" conversation instead.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
#99. Perhaps the day will come when Western science is able to confirm the existence of immaterial forces and realms. Compelling research in the field of parapsychology indirectly points to this possibility, yet most people in mainstream science can't bring themselves to consider the implications.
Mark Ireland
#100. This life is only a test' is a counter-productive mindset; it encourages wishful thinking toward and elusive and likely non-existent afterlife while often enabling the believer to squander this life as somehow less important.
David G. McAfee
