Afterlife Quotes

• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Atheist, Believe

  "Philosophy on the Go". Book by Joey Green, p. 222, 2007.

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• I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.245, Ballantine Books

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• There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

  Stephen Hawking

  Dark, Fairy Stories, People

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.

  Henry Miller

  Death, Spiritual, Unknown Worlds

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

  Douglas Adams

  Reality, Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.138, Pan Macmillan

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• Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?

  Leo Buscaglia

  Happiness, Death, Lost Love

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• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

  Dave Grohl

  Suitcases, Seattle

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• You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.

  Frank Mir

  Death, Sports, Mma

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• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

  Will Rogers

  Cute, Death, Loyalty

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• Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you will die tomorrow.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Happy Life, Forever, Tomorrow

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• I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

  Edvard Munch

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.

  Woody Allen

  Depressing, May, Problem

  Without Feathers "The Early Essays" (1975)

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• Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

  Robert Vaughn

  Men, People, Doe

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• There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

  Paulo Coelho

  Convinced

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• We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

  Noel Coward

  Death, Suicide, Guarantees That

  Noel Coward (1965). “Three plays by Noel Coward: Blithe spirit, Hay fever [and] Private lives”

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• During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.

  John Boehner

  Leader, Going Away, World

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• I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

  Stephen Hawking

  Death, Suicide, Dark

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Men, Long, Heaven

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• Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Eye, Men, Temptation

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.235, Routledge

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• I happen to believe that there is an afterlife

  Beatrice Wood

  Believe, Happens

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• For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

  Kevin Spacey

  Would Be

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• I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

  Marina Abramovic

  Heaven, Havens, Knows

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• The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, Loved Ones, Consoling

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