Afterlife Quotes

The conversation progressed, bumper-car style, to a very heated discussion about death and the survi...

If the afterlife really is a big war,” Kaladin said, “then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least th...

One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we ...

Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife j...

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the produ...

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering ...

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering ...

When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there’s some...

Wherever Jordan's going - and I do believe we all go somewhere - think of it as the light that will ...

...We die, we turn, we are reborn as we deserve to be reborn, based on our doings in this world." Wi...

I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me," Will said, his bloody hand on the hilt of the ...

The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.n...

I didn't know who tobelievebutone thing I doknow: when a man islivingmany claim relationshipsthat ar...

We are medium-sized mammals who only prosper because we've developed a half-arsed ability to terrafo...

Conner raised an eyebrow. 'Who told you

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to w...

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrough...

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

Stormy Llewellyn, a woman of unconventional views, believes instead that our passage through this wo...

There was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were nei...

People don't have dominion over Nature. it's gone beyond that. Human beings and the world are now th...

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their r...

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of ta...

The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.

If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one h...

Do you really suppose God cares whether a man comes to good or ill?""If He did not, He could not be ...

But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more s...

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding...

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing hea...

There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories ...

In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the wo...

He Is Not DeadI cannot say, and I will not sayThat he is dead. He is just away.With a cheery smile, ...

Death is only frightening from the near side.

Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?

Death isn't the end of your life, you know. Your body is a lock. Death is the key. The key turns... ...

Death isn't the end of your life, you know. Your body is a lock. Death is the key. The key turns... ...

People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, ...

People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bare the idea of death being a big black nothing, ...

Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her homet...

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual diseng...

The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith tha...

In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical...

I once went to report on a village in Russia, a community of artists who were forced to flee the cit...

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what probl...

At some indeterminate point in their life cycles, they cause themselves to be placed in artificial s...

It is to be doubted whether anybody who said good-bye to Bert had any faith or interest whatsoever i...

If you thought dead was just dead, then you wouldn't have to worry about any of this.

In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss ...

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped...

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of ...

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays

There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life ...

Now love doesn't stop at death - or if it does, it's a pretty poor sort of love! In fact, grief coul...

The myth of purgatory is an allegory, a projection, from the present on to the future. This is why p...

In particular, we must take account of the well-known and striking saying of Jesus to the dying brig...

Since both the departed saints and we ourselves are in Christ, we share with them in the 'communion ...

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...

Oh, how crafty of religion, I cried out indignantly, to transplant rewards and punishments into a fu...

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

Maybe you've heard the story of the man who was so driven by this curiosity that he roamed among sol...

Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.

Suddenly I began to find a strange meaning in old fairy-tales; woods, rivers, mountains, became livi...

I'm sorry," Leon said. "I can see you loved your two friends and you miss them, and maybe they're fl...

You are dead- what am I speaking to?

Tell them stories.

When we were alive, they told us that when we died we'd go to heaven. And they said that heaven was ...

He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if i...

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginnin...

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into o...

There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it...

This concept of the afterlife really functions as a substitute for wisdom. It functions as a substit...

We don’t see the life after life as it truly is, because in our eyes it conforms to our mechanics of...

Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof.

If I lie down on my bed I must be here,But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.

The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven — and usually the physical comfor...

No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, w...

I have kept thee long in waiting, dear Romuald, and thou mayst well have thought that I had forgotte...

Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherw...

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my tra...

I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I've done, but I'm su...

Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at ...

God does not exist, as neither does our hereafter, that second bogey being as easily disposed of as ...

That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is no...

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack o...

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, ...

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressi...

But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know?I cannot tell you Renisenb....

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know thi...

How did I picture the life after the grave? I fairly bawled out at him: "A life in which I can remem...

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.

And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed ...