Quotes About Afterlife

there is a life to come – wait and see – and that in the life to come we will feel the pains that we inflicted on others. We will suffer all that we made them suffer, for after death all experience is reversed.

Hell was a translation of sheol, which meant "invisible world" or "the land of the dead.

To make a good death is to proceed gracefully into a better body and a better life. The consequences of a bad death are hard to look at. You will not make a good death is a power curse; it makes Fuck you sound like a benediction.

God does not avenge certain crimes in this world, but postpones punishment to the next, to deal with them all the more severely; conversely

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt no sorrow or guilt after the act; those so obsessed with themselves that they turned their backs on the sufferings of others, and left them in pain; those whose greed meant that others starved and died. Such souls belong here, because they would find no peace elsewhere. In this place, they are understood. In this place, their faults have meaning. In this place, they belong.

My grandfather used to say that if God did not allow a man to be reunited with his dogs in the next life He was no God worth worshipping; that if a dog did not have a soul, then nothing had.

You want to know what's on the other side?' Walsh eyed the detective carefully, as if gauging the seriousness of the question. 'Is it seventy-two virgins, like the Muslims believe?' 'That's the good news. The bad news is that they're all guys. It's like being at a boarding school.' 'I knew there had to be a catch.

They listen, the dead. They're always listening. What else is there for them to do?

I knew that his God—for each man has his own God—let him wander there sometimes, perhaps with the ghost of one of the many dogs that had kept him company through his life yapping at his heels, flushing the birds from the rushes and chasing them for the joy of it. My grandfather used to say that if God did not allow a man to be reunited with his dogs in the next life He was no God worth worshipping; that if a dog did not have a soul, then nothing had.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more, death thou shalt die.

Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

Perhaps there is no life after death....there's just Los Angeles.

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!

If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.

My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.