Quotes About Afterlife

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

Am I going to go to Heaven or Hell when I die? No. Is there going to be a second coming, and people are going to be stricken down? I find all that exclusionary.

If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.

I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done.

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.

Most people think that Heaven is a choir, and all you will do is sing.

I used to just want so badly to have afterlife insured and make sure I was going to heaven.

In my mind, we live in Heaven, and we live in Hell.

It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell.

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?

If I believed in Hell, I'd definitely be going there.

The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.

For I suspect the next world will more plainly be a going on with this than most people think—only it will be much better for some, and much worse for others, as the Lord has taught us in the parable of the rich man and the beggar.

And as to death, the fact is we know next to nothing about it. "Do we not!" say the faithless indignantly. "Do we not know the misery of it, the tears, and the sinking of the heart and the desolation!" Yes; you know those; but those are your things, not those of death. About death you know nothing. God has never told us anything about it but that the dead are alive to him, and that one day, they will be again to us.

It is a commonplace that the Christian Heaven, as usually portrayed, would attract nobody.

Often there is a seeming truce between the humanist and the religious believer, but in fact their attitudes cannot be reconciled: one must choose between this world and the next. And the enormous majority of human beings, if they understood the issue, would choose this world. They do make that choice when they continue working, breeding and dying instead of crippling their faculties in the hope of obtaining a new lease of existence elsewhere.

death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism. Albert Einstein, German-born American physicist

How long must a man lie dead," he recited, puzzled by the words that came out of him. "Forever is too long. There must be mercy somewhere.

Tu n'est pas mort et la mort même ne saurait te délivrer...

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

In the Mormon Church, we believe we can be married for all eternity, not till death do you part. As Mom was getting older, she was excited, truly excited, that within a few years she'd be with Dad again.