Quotes About Afterlife

Imelda believed in God because she felt that there had to be something else, something after all this, and also because anyone who was still being worshipped and adored after all that time had to have something going for them.

Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.

There is no hell, John Temsland. Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.

There is no hell… each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

They were dreamers—and they dreamt themselves into the cemetery.

Justice to the dead first," he said; "mercy to the living afterward.

The jazz funeral celebrates the fact that the person who died is free now to dance on the other side.

She had chosen Dante because she found the rhyme scheme pleasingly jaunty, but she realized too late that the Inferno's tale of sinners being cruelly punished in the afterlife was much too bloody and disturbing to be suitable for young minds. Penelope could tell this by the way the children hung on her every word and demanded "More, more!" each time she reached the end of a canto and tried to stop.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Las sombras son pasadizos hacia el mundo de la noche, del invierno, el país de los muertos

You'll be cool when you're dead.

Between life and death there is a library

No men and women in heaven?" he heard a soldier behind him grumble. "If I ain't a man anymore, how's that different from just being dead?

What you going to do?" she cried. "You break my neck, and the what? You think I won't come back and haunt you? Go ahead! Make me a ghost! See what that gets you.

you never knew how things might go on Judgment Day.

Remember the dead do not eat actual solid food, any more than the gods do. They eat the spirit of the food. The priests say a picture of food, or words describing food are as tasty and pleasing as the real thing, to a dead person.

Death is the beginning of immortality.

I'm sorry, Heather, but everything was not just fine before I got here. You know how I know that? Because you're dead. Okay? You are dead. Dead people don't have lockers, or best friends, or boyfriends. You know why? Because they're dead.-Suze Simon

Maybe the secret truth about death is that dead people are whisked away from their current lives and forced to live somewhere else far away—a process similar to reincarnation but taking place not in the future but now. A sort of mortality-based witness protection program. And if you found them they would look the same as they always had. If only you knew where to find them. If only you knew where to look.

Death is an endless retirement with a pension of nothingness.