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Quotes About Afterlife

Which soul shall escape the power of the grave?.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I will survive: if the hell rejects me, there is always the paradise.
~ Lara Biyuts, La Arme Blanche
I strongly believe in after life because life down here is too costly.
~ Nadair Desmar
Who knows until we experience it? I think that heaven and reincarnation are both ways of making us feel better about what happens to people's souls after death. I hope at least one of them is true.
~ Cat Patrick, Forgotten
There are perhaps seven broad claims about the afterlife, with innumerable variations and combinations of belief.
~ John Michael Greer
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
~ John Milton
This world is only an anteroom of the next. This short life is incidental compared with eternity. This world is not home to the Christian.
~ John R. Rice
Don't think of Heaven as a ghostly, unreal, indefinite state. It is a real place, a place as literal and concrete as the house you sit in today, as physically real as the city where you live.
~ John R. Rice
Most people, they are afraid to believe in ghosts. Me, i'm afraid not to believe. Because, well, what then? If there really is nothing else- nowhere to go after this, no way to linger on this plane to finish unsettled business it we must, then that means each moment, each breath, each passing second, is as ethereal as the wind. It means all we do here on earth- the going and coming, the loving and hating- it is all for naught. So, no. Ghosts don't scare me. But no ghosts- that terrifies me.
~ John Searles
When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay
~ John Taliaferro
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.
~ John Updike
Gas chamber, gallows. Electric chair, stake, firing squad. Hang by the neck till you're dead, dead, dead, and may God recycle your soul.
~ John Varley
We both had to reject the concept of life after death, even if we weren't brought up to believe in it, because all human cultures are steeped in the idea.
~ John Varley
The dead won't bother you, it's the living you have to worry about.
~ John Wayne Gacy
There are angels in Hell," the horror writer told him, "not just in Heaven. Indeed, the angels of Hell may be the more numerous.
~ Ellen Datlow
Odin's Valhalla was for chosen warriors,
~ Else Roesdahl
the body of a wagon, to symbolize a whole wagon. Food and drink were usually placed in the graves. All this indicates that the realm of the dead was reached by a journey,
~ Else Roesdahl
The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves to be led away from it. This is why people who are absorbed in evil are connected to hell and actually are there in spirit; and after death they crave above all to be where their evil is. So after death, it is we, not the Lord, who cast ourselves into hell.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
for every man's soul is in a spiritual body after it has cast off the material coverings which it carried about in the world.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Others work among the spirits that have just arrived in the world of spirits. Again others raise the children who have died in infancy. Swedenborg ensures the parents of these infants that 'All children whether born within or outside of the church, are adopted by the Lord and become Angels'.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Never hear the end of afterworld/afterlife i.e. always be reminded of afterworld/afterlife where you will surely spend eternity either in hell or heaven.
~ Emeasoba George
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.
~ Emily
Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality
~ Emily Dickinson