After Death Quotes - Page 8

• Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Atheist, Pain, Betrayal

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• I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fate, Mind, Body

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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• I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Giving, Wish, Doe

  Sandra Cisneros (2015). “A House of My Own: Stories from My Life”, p.321, Vintage

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• I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

  Hans Kung

  Reality, Space, Transition

  "Controversial Theologian Hans Küng 'I Don't Cling to This Life'". Interview with Markus Grill, www.spiegel.de. December 12, 2013.

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• If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

  Martial

  Fame, Ifs

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.225

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• People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter... than a god who puts out traps for people, invites them to sin, and allows them to sin and commit crimes he could prevent. Only to finally get the barbarian pleasure to punish them in an excessive way, of no use for himself, without them changing their ways and without their example preventing others from committing crimes.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Death, Punishment, People

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• It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of taste; he is the author of all form; he clothes the lily, he colours the rose, he distils the dewdrop, he makes the music of nature; in a word, he organized us for this life, and imposed its conditions; and they are such guaranty to me that, trustful as a little child, I leave to him the organization of my Soul, and every arrangement for the life after death. I know he loves me.

  Lew Wallace

  Beautiful, Children, Hands

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• Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

  Ben Jonson

  Drinking, Sorrow, Use

  Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1811). “The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher”, p.149

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• There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Soul, Answers, Belief

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• I'm not big on the after-death experience. If you've done a very good job in your current lifetime, then your next lifetime will be set up for you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Done, Next

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• If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote. As with the face on Mars and alien abductions, better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Real, Data

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.263, Ballantine Books

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• It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Lifetime, Easy

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• There is a moment after death when things can go one of several ways, when souls can mingle and reunite-or be forever parted. Fate throws the bones, and hearts are mended, or shattered. What tips the balance in one's favor? Is it Mercy, or Grace, or Justice-the names of the three brightest angels? Or is it Love, the name of the One True Being?

  Nancy Holder

  Heart, Angel, Fate

  Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguie (2010). “Wicked: Resurrection”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.

  Iain Banks

  Possibility Of Change, Mutation, Development

  Iain M. Banks (2001). “Look to Windward”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

  Garth Nix

  Mystery, Sabriel

  Garth Nix (2014). “Sabriel”, p.12, Hot Key Books

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• The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunger for life after death(on Russian slave laborers.)

  Sophie Scholl

  World, Satisfaction, Hunger

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• Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Regret, First Love

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 31, song (added 1850)

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• My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I ever had on Earth. I wish I could say that in that moment in the kitchen she decided to quit drinking, but I now saw that drinking was a part of what made her who she was. If the worst of what she left on Earth was a legacy of inebriated support, it was a good legacy in my book. ~Susie's grandmother, Lynn pgs 315-316

  Alice Sebold

  Drinking, Book, Grandmother

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• And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of the Iranian attendant, the thickening clouds--nothing was mine. And I understood finally, after a semester of philosophy, a thousand books of poetry, after death and childbirth and the startled cries of men who called out my name as they entered me, I finally believed I was alone, felt it in my actual, visceral heart, heard it echo like a thin bell.

  Dorianne Laux

  Philosophy, Book, Heart

  Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Cutting, Night

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.120, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• After night comes day. After death comes life. Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone. You are loved.

  Anna McPartlin

  Night, Looks, Darkest Times

  Anna McPartlin (2008). “Pack Up the Moon”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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• With all this extra stressin
  The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath
  When will I finaly get to rest? Through this supression
  they punish the people that's askin questions
  And those that possess, steal from the ones without possesions
  The message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons
  Don't settle for less - even the genius asks-es questions
  Be grateful for blessings
  Don't ever change, keep your essence
  The power is in the people and politics we address.

  Tupac Shakur

  Stress, Grateful, Blessing

  Song: Me Against The World

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• There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, People, Survival

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pale Fire”, p.34, Vintage

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• I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.

  Elizabeth Berg

  People, Easier, Priests

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• Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Church, Membership, Sacred

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