After Death Quotes - Page 6

• A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.

  Mario Bunge

  Religious, Ideas, Painful

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• What if life after death is all based within memory: you die, and you don't ascend on a bed of clouds to Jesus, but your brain has a terrain that it can use to propel itself further. It's more of a theoretical afterlife. If that's true, all of these theoretical afterlives of people could potentially interact or network. That space seems way more powerful and exciting than reality. This potential boundlessness is more of what god is to me.

  Blake Butler

  Jesus, Memories, Powerful

  "'We don't realize what we're walking on half the time'". Interview with David Rice, logger.believermag.com. October 16, 2014.

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• It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Fellow Man, Spirit

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.18

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• Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Dying, Answers, Life After Death

  E.L. Doctorow (2009). “Homer & Langley: A Novel”, p.101, Random House

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• In the New Testament outside the Gospels and the beginning of Acts, again and again, the fact of Jesus’ resurrection is closely linked to our own ultimate resurrection, which isn’t life after death – it’s life after life after death.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Facts, Resurrection

  "Trevin Wax Interview with N.T. Wright". www.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• Whatever life after death is, being with Christ which is far better, being in Paradise like the thief, etc, the many rooms where we go immediately... that is the temporary place. The ultimate life after life after death is the resurrection in God's new world.

  N. T. Wright

  Rooms, Etc, Thieves

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• When you look at the basis for the immortality of the soul, you have these foundationless speculations and really, no intelligent reason for believing that there's life after death.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Believe, Intelligent, Soul

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• The Bible puts forth a strong case for no free will and that's a real problem you know, because the justification for supposedly being punished after death is that you had free will. If you didn't have free will and you did what God predetermined, then how can he punish you?"

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Strong, Real, Problem

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.

  Zadie Smith

  Believe, Consciousness, Extensions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.

  Carl Jung

  Loss, Hands, Doe

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• A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor, will be known only after death; and even then not without an autopsy will you examine it with exacting pains. But rare are those among the extremely busy clinicians who are willing or capable of doing this correctly.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Pain, Doctors, Disease

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• The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.

  William Blake

  Imagination, World, Body

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.555, Univ of California Press

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• In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break.

  Terence McKenna

  Yoga, Confusion, Dying

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• We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Memories, Body, Next

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• After death there is nothing.

  Seneca the Younger

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• To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a basic superstition, that there is no evidence for the existence of any god(s), that devils, demons, angels and saints are myths, that there is no life after death, heaven nor hell, that the Pope is a dangerous, bigoted, medieval dinosaur, and that the Holy Ghost is a comic-book character worthy of laughter and derision.

  James Randi

  Laughter, Book, Character

  Skeptic Magazine, Volume 3, No. 4, 1995.

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• It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Death, Religious, Atheist

  "Religion and Science", New York Times Magazine, November 9, 1930.

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• To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and control. Even after death, most particularly after death, the search continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete the scheme, in ritual. Picture a state funeral, Jack. It is all precision, detail, order, design. The nation holds its breath. - (WN 292)

  Don DeLillo

  Order, Design, Funeral

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• Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease, so bend. The sun is in the tree. Put your mouth on mine. Bend down beam & slash, for Dread is dreamed-up-scenes of what comes after death. Is being fled from what bends down in pain. The elbow bends in the brain, lifts the cup. The worst is yet to dream you up, so bend down the intrigue you dreamed. Flee the hayneedle in the brain's tree. Excess allures by leaps. Stars burn clean. Oriole bitches and gleams. Dread is the fear of being less forever. So bend. Bend down and kiss what you see.

  Stan Rice

  Dream, Stars, Pain

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• After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

  Annie Besant

  Use, World, Body

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• If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Believe, People, Passionate

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1966-1967 : Perennial questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now

  Greg Epstein

  Kindness, Next, Life After Death

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• A soul might very well exist, but we, as physicists, try to measure and quantify everything. So far, no one has been able to create an experiment to do this for the soul. Efforts have been made to weigh the body after death, but each time we find no evidence of a soul. So a soul may very well exist, but it is not a testable theory.

  Michio Kaku

  Effort, Soul, Trying

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.

  Tim O'Brien

  Hate, Men, Needs

  Tim O'Brien (2011). “Tomcat in Love”, p.319, Broadway Books

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• From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Artist, Signatures, Want

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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