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Quotes About Afterlife

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.
~ Helen Thomas
I like ghosts. I have heard it said that the dead have never done, in six thousand years, as much evil as the living do in a single day.
~ Alexandre Dumas
La drept vorbind, singurii inÈ™i în stare s? se plictiseasc? pe lumea aceasta È™i care se c?l?toresc în lumea de apoi cu speranÈ›a c? vor avea parte de mai multe distracÈ›ii sunt zevzecii.
~ Alexandre Dumas
He was dead. He knew he was dead. He refused to submit to eternity. He beat again into the unknown.
~ Alfred Bester
Lately, she's been wondering if perhaps when the living become the dead they leave an empty space behind, a hollow no one else can fill.
~ Alice Hoffman
I think if I believe in anything, I believe in ghosts.
~ Alice Hoffman
We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die.
~ Alice Hoffman
He thought about where it was people went when they died, & how when he squinted he could see Cody, racing back & forth, barking, how his father seemed to stand right there on the riverbank, turning back the bees, closer than he'd ever been before.
~ Alice Hoffman
You cannot bring back those who have stepped into the next world, and should you try, they would not be the same beings that had once been, but rather they would become unnatural creatures, created by dark magic and desire.
~ Alice Hoffman
If love could tie you to a place from which you never wished to roam then wouldn't it be sensible to suppose that after death it might also tie the atoms that made you to that very same place?
~ Alice Hoffman
At Evensong one night, while Holly played at sax and Mrs. Bethel Utemeyer joined in, I saw him: Holiday, racing past a fluffy white Samoyed. He had lived to a ripe old age on earth and slept at my father's feet after my mother left, never wanting to let him out of his sight... I waited for him to sniff me out, anxious to know if here, on the other side, I would still be the little girl he slept beside. I did not have to wait long: he was so happy to see me, he knocked me down.
~ Alice Sebold
You're dead and you have to accept it.
~ Alice Sebold
Ruth, que quería que todos creyeran lo que ella sabía: que los muertos realmente nos hablan, que, en el aire que rodea a los vivos, los espíritus se mueven, se entremezclan y ríen con nosotros. Son el oxígeno que respiramos.
~ Alice Sebold
I was a soul back on Earth. AWOL a little while from heaven.
~ Alice Sebold
The living have pleasures the dead know nothing of.
~ Amanda Grange
For there be divers sorts of death—some wherein the body remained; and in some it vanished quite away with the spirit.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Undertakers were great ones for persuading grieving folk to spend money they didn't have. That way, debt could follow you even into the Land of the Dead.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in someone's ear telling them that things will be alright.
~ Joe Meno
It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.
~ Joe Meno
I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
~ Joel Osteen
I don't know what you believe in. I believe we just stop. Because if we move on to an afterlife, any kind of afterlife, that means there will be other people there. I'm tired of the chit chat. Oh, that is a handsome boy. He takes after his grandfather. Did they change the breakfast again? It tastes different to me. For Eternity? No thanks.
~ Joey Comeau
When we die, I believe we go to a better place: nowhere.
~ Joey Comeau
Death is not the end. Death is the credits rolling. The movie was over a while ago.
~ Joey Comeau
If you picture of a perfect After-life, it's being with the people you love all the time. He asked me: Why wouldn't you choose today: when you're still alive, to be truely present with the people you love? Why would you rather be lost in a haze of distractions!?
~ Johann Hari