Quotes About Afterlife

Things change after you die, though- I guess because dying is about the lonliest thing you can do.

In life we are separated by boundaries political, cultural, ethical, linguistical and psychical. But in death we are all united, for all afterlife is similarly unknown

None of the dead come back. But some stay.

I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends.

All have a shadow over the earth but no shadow under earth or in grave.

Death is not an means to an end but the beginning of life with God

It may be that we have all lived before and died and this is Hell.

If there is another world he lives in bliss. If there is none he made the best of this.

There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for ever more.

The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

All dreams continue in the beyond.

Death does not exist.

For it must be very lonely being dead.

Alinsky's contempt for traditional morality can also be seen in the figure to whom he dedicated his book Rules for Radicals. That figure is the devil. Alinsky calls Lucifer "the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom." He goes on to say, "If there's an afterlife, and I have anything to say about it, I will unreservedly go to hell. Hell would be heaven for me."15

The most common descriptions I have found of the moment when death occurs is that there is a feeling of coldness and then suddenly the spirit is standing by the side of the bed (or wherever) looking at their body. They usually can't understand why the other people in the room are so upset because they feel so wonderful. The overall sensation is one of exhilaration rather than dread.

When hell fills up, the dead will walk the streets.

The dead have come to take the living. The dead in winding-sheets, the regimented dead on horseback, the skeleton that plays the hurdy-gurdy.

What do you think the afterlife is, a body of facts just waiting to be uncovered? Do you think the U.S. Air Force is secretly gathering data on the afterlife and keeping it under wraps because we're not mature enough to accept the findings? The findings would cause a panic? No. I'll tell you what the afterlife is. it's a sweet and terribly touching idea. You can take it or leave it.

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

I would be less frightened of death (not just my own death but Welty's death, Andy's death, Death in general) if I thought a familiar person came to meet us at the door

And besides, is death really so terrible a thing? It seems terrible to you, because you are young, but who is to say he is not better off now than you are? Or—if death is a journey to another place—that you will not see him again?