After Death Quotes - Page 3

• Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

  Socrates

  Life, Death, Cheer

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• If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

  Kurt Cobain

  Hope, Soul, Dying

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• But that the dread of something after death,
  The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
  No traveller returns, puzzles the will
  And makes us rather bear those ills we have
  Than fly to others that we know not of?

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Country

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Real, Alive

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  If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, If There Is A God, God And Life

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• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Personality, Catholic, Doubt

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• It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life, I would be rewarded after death. Those beliefs, sincerely held, can get a human being through many hard times.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Powerful, Good Life, Hard Times

  Bill O'Reilly (2013). “Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World”, p.39, Crown Archetype

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• And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Life Changing, World, Might

  "The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer".

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• He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.

  Socrates

  Cheer, Other Worlds, May

  "Phaedo". Book by Plato,

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• But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Night, Light, Dust

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Death, Men, Heaven

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• Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Sentimental, Belief, Christ

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• Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.358

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• O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wise, Art, Sleep

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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• The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Science, Religion

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• The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.

  Carl Jung

  Attitude, Long, Stories

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• We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Angel, Dark

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

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• On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Night, Appreciate, Personality

  Gary Shteyngart (2013). “Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love Story: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.183, Random House

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• If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.

  Kyle Minor

  Land, Life And Death, Southern

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• One reason why I recommend the abandonment of religious beliefs is because I think those beliefs are wrong. There is no evidence that our world was created by divine intention, that a god intercedes in human affairs, or that there is life after death. Religion is a hangover from humankind's timorous infancy; it's time for us to walk upright and unafraid, and to take charge of our own lives.

  Simon LeVay

  Religious, Hangover, Thinking

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• I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Country, Inspiration

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

  Irma S. Rombauer

  Pigs, Saint, Lifetime

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• For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.

  Mary Butts

  Battle, Indifference, Form

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• Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life in this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren. Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especially of evidencing his repentance.

  Thomas Secker

  Charity, Rewards, Way

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• Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

  Saint Augustine

  Punishment, Suffering, Lasts

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