Afterlife Quotes

I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.

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.

My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured.

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

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

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.

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.

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

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

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.

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

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

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.

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

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.

My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for.

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

Death is only frightening from the near side.

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

... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

R.I.P. Steve Jobs. I bet you're busy right now revolutionizing and redesigning the afterlife for all of us to enjoy when our time comes

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

Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.

If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!

If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly Because it dissolves in water.

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.

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

When I die, I will return to where I first came from. Back to the stars.

There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.

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

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

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.

At first it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here.

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

We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

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

...We die, we turn, we are reborn as we deserve to be reborn, based on our doings in this world." Will looked down at his bitten nails. "I will probably be reborn as a slug that someone salts.