Quotes About Afterlife

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

Her desire was close to that of the person who drowns himself; he does not necessarily covet death so much as what comes after the drowning—something different from what he had before, at least a different world.

Ölür ise ten ölür, canlar ölesi de?il" (Only the body dies, souls can never be slain)

So our medieval ancestors were happy because they found meaning to life in collective delusions about the afterlife? Yes. As long as nobody punctured their fantasies, why shouldn't they?

In ancient agricultural societies, most religions revolved not around metaphysical questions and the afterlife, but around the very mundane issue of increasing agricultural output. Thus

Moreover, most faiths turned death into the main source of meaning in life. Try to imagine Islam, Christianity or the ancient Egyptian religion in a world without death. These creeds taught people that they must come to terms with death and pin their hopes on the afterlife, rather than seek to overcome death and live forever here on earth.

What, exactly, happens to a Communist after he or she dies?

Scepticism about the afterlife drives humankind to seek not only immortality, but also earthly happiness.

nunca convenceremos a un mono para que nos dé un plátano con la promesa de que después de morir tendrá un número ilimitado de bananas a su disposición en el cielo de los monos. Pero

Ancient Greece the philosopher Epicurus explained that worshipping gods is a waste of time, that there is no existence after death, and that happiness is the sole purpose of life.

Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.

For years she'd been the Central Gates Precinct's Witness Retrieval Specialist – more commonly referred to as a "Ghost Yanker" by her non-magical colleagues on the force. Being stuck in the basement talking to dead victims would depress the hell out of anyone, if they did it for long enough. Then, six months ago, everything changed.

He'd died. Plain and simple. And it pissed him off. Left him frustrated and disappointed. Where had all , the guardian angel crap they'd fed him in catechism gone to? He'd seen no angels, seraphim, archangels or pearly gates. No one to show him the ropes now that he was dead. What the hell was he supposed to do?

it is on the ninth day after death that the soul is said to leave the body. On the fortieth day, it departs this world. Between these two points lies a blank space that the Church does not account for, but peasants will tell you that the soul returns home and takes up residence behind the stove.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.

When I think about dying, one of the things that really scares me is that I'll be surrounded by my family in heaven. I'll be trapped in eternity with people I don't even want to spend Thanksgiving with.

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

True leadership is measured by what happens after you die.

When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls.

This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven.

Do not weep, for I shall be more useful to you after my death and I shall help you then more effectively than during my life.

Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.