Quotes About Afterlife

I know it feels crass to talk about death in such mercenary terms, but that's the very problem with death in the first place. We don't know how to talk about it. We use euphemisms and discuss pearly gates and angels while glossing over the fact that we have to die to get there. We treat it like a mystery, when in fact, it's the one experience all of us are guaranteed to share.

I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now... if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.

They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer.

don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now… if she is somewhere.

No matter what we survivors like to tell ourselves about the afterlife, when someone dies, everything is over.

But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

Ma ei looda surmajärgsele elule ega jumalusele, kes võiks seda pakkuda. Arvestades, missuguse maailma ta lõi, oleks temasse uskumine jumalavallatus.

Where Will You Spend Eternity? And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27 KJV) I want to know, my friend Where will your life now end? Where will you spend eternity? Will it be Heaven or Hell? No one can run, or hide So now, my friend, you must decide Where will you spend eternity? Heaven or

Where Will You Spend Eternity? And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27 KJV) I want to know, my friend Where will your life now end? Where will you spend eternity? Will it be Heaven or Hell? No one can run, or hide So now, my friend, you must decide Where will you spend eternity? Heaven or Hell?

Yes, I know it's easy to make fun of the organised churches, but has it occurred to anyone to wonder why it's so easy? What gets my goat is that "Religion" should be the most exciting topic of all. Is there an afterlife? Can we have a real purpose to our lives? How can we love our enemy, when it seems about as easy as levitating?

If you die before me, and you are at those pearly gates, ask if you can bring a friend.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

What if you're a really good person, but you get into a really, really bad fight and your leg gets gangrene and it has to be amputated. Will it be waiting for you in heaven?

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.

Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

You die and die and then you are beyond death.

I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to Kagome

With death comes a choice. And death is a choice.

One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

The dead don't bother with particulars.

Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.

When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.

Death is only a summer vacation for us. We don't really change or lose what we have learned or who we have been when we die, because we are our karma.