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Quotes About Afterlife

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
~ Erich Maria Remarque
A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.
~ Stanislav Grof
Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.
~ Garth Nix, Sabriel
I have good hope that there is something after death.
~ Plato
If death turned out to be a lack of being rather than a lack of consciousness, well, then, that sucked.
~ Linda Howard
I'll be mellow when I'm dead.
~ Al Yankovic
I'd rather die than go to heaven.
~ Brendon Small
Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.
~ John Green
They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.
~ Saint Augustine
If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.
~ Jane Roberts
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
~ Graham Greene
I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
~ Val Kilmer
We all think we know what happens after death. But maybe it's going to be not only weird but also dorky and comic and inconsistent.
~ George Saunders
I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they are so upset about the death thing."
~ Sark
but because no evidence had ever been offered Sabbath to persuade him that the dead were anything other than dead. To talk to them, admittedly, was to indulge in the most defensible of irrational human activities
~ Philip Roth
The resurrection and its victory over death brought a decisive new word to the vocabulary of pain and suffering: temporary. Jesus Christ holds out the startling promise of an afterlife without pain. Whatever anguish we feel now will not last.
~ Philip Yancey
Unlike the scary movies and sermons from my youth, not one of them focuses on personal salvation as a way of escaping hell in the afterlife. Rather, they present how the good news about eternity should transform this life. The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
~ Philip Yancey
I will love you forever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again...
~ Unknown
Ölüm iki ÅŸeyden biridir: ya bir hiçlik, büsbütün ÅŸuursuzluk halidir, yahut da, herkesin dediÄŸi gibi ruhun bu dünyadan ayr?larak baÅŸka bir dünyaya geçmesidir
~ Platon
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
~ Plato
The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
~ Plato
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
~ Plato
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils
~ Plato