Quotes About Afterlife

I now believe in God for my own ends. I'm not an altruistic Christian - I'm only doing it in case there is in fact a Heaven.

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

I don't believe in heaven, and I don't believe in hell as a place with flames where people are burning and having eternal pain. I don't believe in that at all. I believe in a place I call 'beyond.'

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

My mother taught me to believe in ghosts: to use a Ouija board, have seances, and leave little offerings out for those who have passed.

I think everyone, especially after the passing of a loved one, starts to hope that maybe there will be something better on the other side.

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

Because dead people are just like you and me, they still want things. They look at us all the time, and they miss being alive. We have taste and color and smell and feelings, and they don't have any of those things. They stare at us, they don't miss anything. They really see what's going on, and we hardly ever really see that. We're too busy thinking about things and getting everything wrong, so we miss ninety percent of what's happening.

Death is only the beginning

HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.

Dad passed away in 2000, but he visits me all the time. He comes to me in different ways. So I have that connection with him, and that comforts me, to know that in time I can come back and still have that with my kids. It's not unfamiliar to me, that connection with the afterlife. I know it's real; I experience it all the time.

In a reading, I might hear a voice, see an image or even get a physical sensation that corresponds with how someone passed.

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

Death is the beginning of something.

This is really clear to me now. Ever since, I've never felt as tepid of this place as other people do. Everything seems like a long, improbable afterlife.

Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!

What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.

I used to be an atheist, which means I didn't believe in things that couldn't be observed. I believed that once you're dead, you're dead forever, and you don't feel anything, and you don't even dream. It's not that I believe in things that can't be observed now, because I don't. It's that I believe that things are extremely complicated.

Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno.

I presume that in the heaven of the Blessèd there are those who believe that the advantages of that locale are much exaggerated by theologists, who have never been there themselves. And perhaps in hell the damned are not always happy.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.