Quotes About Afterlife

Wol? i?? do piek?a ni? do nieba, gdy? w tym pierwszym znale?li si? wszyscy ciekawi ludzie.

I'm subject to occasional theological nightmares. The one that leaves me in a cold sweat every time is, I arrive at the pearly gates and the first thing I'm asked is where I went to college.

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

Si llamáramos a las tumbas y preguntáramos a los muertos si les gustaría levantarse otra vez, nos dirían que no.

And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible, and does not have to be called marriage, nor god, nor an afterlife.

Do you suppose that he would have spoken if he had been alive? And do you suppose that if any of the dead husbands came back they would be believed?

When I die I hope to go to heaven--whatever that is--and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first. -Description of Doomsday

Ghost stories appeal to our craving for immortality. If you can be afraid of a ghost, then you have to believe that a ghost may exist. And if a ghost exists, then oblivion might not be the end.

Eternal condemnation is the key to selling doorknobs.

EL-FAYOUMY: Yes. Mother. Is there a Hell? MOTHER TERESA: I hope not, but I think so.

The extent to which dharma practice has been institutionalized as a religion can be gauged by the number of consolatory elements that have crept in: for example, assurances of a better afterlife if you perform virtuous deeds or recite mantras or chant the name of a Buddha.

To the Navi, Eywa is their mother goddess - and, in a sense their heaven. She takes them into herself when they die.

But I'm not afraid anymore because heaven and hell are not destinations. They are decisions.

Ghost of Bobby: no, no you can't eat me. I'm a ghost. Stephen Colbert: That just means that there's less bones to pick out.

Hermes, the Psychopomp.

The Greeks, if the truth be told, were far too wise to have a consistent eschatology that presumed infallible knowledge of the afterlife. They had noted that no one ever returned from death and took the sane and sensible view that those who claimed to know what happened to a person after they died were either fools or liars.

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

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

Sometimes dead is better

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we know is this: When we die, one of two things happens. Either our souls and thoughts somehow survive the experience of dying or they don't. If they do, that opens up every possibility you could think of. If they don't, it's just blotto. The end.