After Death Quotes - Page 12

• If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it.
  [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

  Martial

  Fame, Gloria, Posts

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• [You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Clever, Writing

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• When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Men, Rights

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• It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to our spirits, if it were not to be filled with the infinite variety and freshness of God's love. Some have shrunk from its very infinitude, because they have not realized what God's love can make of it. Human love helps us to understand this. When we have come to love any one with all our power of affection, then there is no monotony or weariness in the days and hours we spend with them.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Future, Heaven, Might

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Clouds, Dust

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• Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

  May Sarton

  Book, Thinking, Immortality

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• The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death.

  Riane Eisler

  Leader, Movement, Care

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• I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies. This does not make sense. The proper guidance during the life of a man should be the weight that he puts upon ethics and the amount of consideration that he has for others.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, Doe

  Peter A. Bucky, Albert Einstein, Allen G. Weakland (1992). “The private Albert Einstein”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.

  Natalie Angier

  Believe, Alive, May

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• I like to joke that you usually write more books before death than after death, so that's why I'm doing it. But really, I remain engaged with ideas. There are so many things happening that turn me on and I just want to examine them.

  T.C. Boyle

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.

  Sarada Devi

  Evil, Today, Merit

  Sarada Devi (1963). “At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi”

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• It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Life After Death, Idiotic

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• A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Death, Spiritual, Men

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1871). “Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures”, p.36

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• The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life: because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of his love, and therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite, would be to destroy the spirit utterly.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Change, Wise, Good Life

  Emanuel Swedenborg, John Bigelow (1888). “A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg”

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• ... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

  Erica Jong

  Voice, Great Poetry, Continuation

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• What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

  Paracelsus

  Earth, Holiness, Kingdoms

  "Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time" by Frank Geerk, 1992.

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• That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Fusion, Essentials

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• If you see really bright lights, or hear really loud noises, go towards them, don't run away from anything. It's like giving someone instructions on how to handle a bear, don't run away from it. Stand up and try to make yourself look as big as possible. Don't give it the signal that it should chase you. And that's the case with the after death visions. Don't go for dark seductive lights, go only for bright lights.

  Robert Thurman

  Running, Dark, Light

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are conjectures which have been given out as facts, handed down with many adornments by tradition, and accepted by posterity as "revealed religion". They are theories more or less rational which uncivilised men have devised in order to explain the facts of life, and which civilised men believe that they believe.

  William Winwood Reade

  Believe, Destiny, Men

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.179

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• I want to go on living even after death!

  Anne Frank

  Goes On, Want, Grateful To God

  Diary, 4 Apr. 1944

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• I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths... I can see much to admire in all religions... But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Thinking, Soul, Suffering

  Alfred Russel Wallace's letter to a relative, 1861.

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• 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

  House, Paradise, Lord

  Tribune, November 19, 1976.

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• Death is unimportant to a yogi; he does not mind when he is going to die. What happens after death is immaterial to him. He is only concerned with life-with how he can use his life for the betterment of humanity. Having undergone various types of pain in his life and having acquired a certain mastery over pain, he develops compassion to help society and maintains himself in purity and holiness. The yogi has no interest beyond that.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Pain, Compassion, Humanity

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• All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.

  Octavia Butler

  Children, Long, Honor

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• I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. 'I am thyself,what hast thou done to me?' 'And Iand Ithyself,' (lo! each one saith,) 'And thou thyself to all eternity!

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Self, Done, Lasts

  'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 2 'Lost Days'

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