Quotes About Afterlife

It's funny how much the lie of a life after life works with people. Even people who are non-believers seem to think that their soul is going to survive.

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

I leaned toward him and whispered, "I'm drowning. Save me." But when I tried to grasp his shoulder my hand passed through him. "I'm over here," he said. I said, "No wonder I can't touch you. You're dead too." Or perhaps I didn't say it.

The indignities visited on his corpse could not touch him; in death he was inviolate. I had no such grace.

SMALL BOY: Where do animals go when they die? SMALL GIRL: All good animals go to heaven, but the bad ones go to the Natural History Museum. — Caption to a drawing by E.H. Shepard, PUNCH, 1929 SIMON

Death is nothing but to the last chance to meet the god

On the basis of what the New Testament does say, the final home should not be called "heaven" but instead the "new heavens and the new earth," and this makes a significant difference for understanding that what we do now really does matter—for we will continue doing it on the other side of life after death.

Dr. Duncan MacDougall, Haverhill, once attempted to prove that the human soul had weight by placing dying patients on a giant scale at the exact moment of death. Believe it or not, at the exact moment of death, there was a slight decrease in weight.

Paradise was not far away when I died

The land of the living, sister, Is neither here nor there. We enter it and we leave it. The dead in the land of the dead Are the ones you'll be with longest.

How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.

In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.

Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.

I havent really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.

If there is no smoking in heaven, I'm not interested

The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought hell.

Go to heaven for the climate

Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there.

Dogs go to heaven

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed.

He is in heaven now, and happy; or if not there, he bides in hell and is content; for in that place he will find neither abbot nor yet bishop.

Go to heaven for the climate, go to hell for the company.