After Death Quotes - Page 7

• But I just don't think it's an abyss of nothingness [after death] and that we fall off and that our journey stops. I think it's circular and we go and we go and we go. I know that there are civilizations that I think are way more sophisticated than we are and I think more sophisticated civilizations lived before us.

  Halle Berry

  Fall, Journey, Thinking

  "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry Interview, Cloud Atlas". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Silence, Black

  Magdalena Da̧browski, Wassily Kandinsky, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1995). “Kandinsky compositions”

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• We must all die. There's nothing terrible about death. But to live on after death, a soul, earthbound, a vampire--you don't wish any such fate for your beloved.

  Guy Endore

  Death, Fate, Soul

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• It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient Jews--Micah, Isaiah, and the rest--who took no count whatever of what might not happen to them after death. It is not obvious to me why the same point should not by and by be reached by the Gentiles.

  Thomas Huxley

  Afterlife, Levels, May

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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• In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

  Francis Crick

  Believe, Independent, People

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• We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus' hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after death] judgment but to the very historic consequences of rejecting his kingdom message of reconciliation and peacemaking. The destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 67-70 seems to many people to fulfill much of what we have traditionally understood as hell.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Fire, People

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• The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

  Phillips Brooks

  Easter, Forever, May

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• Does fashion matter? Always - though not quite as much after death.

  Joan Rivers

  Fashion, Doe, Matter

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• For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death.

  Alexander Monro

  Blood, Brain, Disease

  Alexander Monro (1994). “Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System”

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• This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than any belief in the history of mankind. Yet this doctrine was taught unambiguously by Jesus.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Jesus, Religion, Atheism

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• I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less than possible concrete evidence of life after death - weren't they at least worth a visit?

  Tom Shroder

  Ideas, Atheism, Life After Death

  Tom Shroder (1999). “Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps there is no life after death....there's just Los Angeles.

  Richard Anderson

  Drinking, Los Angeles, Life After Death

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• People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  People, Vital Signs, Blind

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• Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Baby, Peace, War

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• It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.

  Herman Melville

  Creativity, Exercise, Immature

  Herman Melville (2017). “Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities”, p.179, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows
  When, after death, man's honor is his guard.
  So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie,
  Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

  Ovid

  Death, Lying, Men

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• Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! Do not believe in life after death! Seek for the life within the life! The medusa of Turritopsis nutricula is biologically immortal and this little creature is a big inspiration for us! He who thinks positively reaches his target!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Inspiration, Believe

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• It would be fair in terms of justice that those who believe in 'Life After Death' live much less than those who do not believe in such a thing!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Believe, Justice

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• The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.

  Terry Pratchett

  Tree, Paper, Clean

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• Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ties, Religion, Body

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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• Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

  Isabel Allende

  Two, Silence, Noise

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• In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death?

  Whitley Strieber

  Reality, What If, Energy

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• Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery; I will read him again, and he will talk to me, not being dead, or gone. Is that life after death — mind living on paper and flesh living in offspring? Maybe. I do not know.

  Sylvia Plath

  Loss, Men, Secret

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.45, Anchor

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• The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

  Terence McKenna

  Confusion, Mind Blowing, Dying

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

  Ann Brashares

  Dream, People, Done

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.293, Random House

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