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Quotes About Afterlife

One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the props have been knocked from under it. There must be another world beside this swamp in which everything is dumped pell-mell. It's hard to imagine what it can be like, this heaven that men dream about.
~ Henry Miller
Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?
~ Herman Melville
By living so long, the supercentenarian earns the prefixal 'super' and becomes a person suddenly freighted with power and meaning. He's Gandalf, Yoda, the Ancient Mariner, perhaps with some otherworldly insight. He's lived so long that, in fact, he's living the afterlife to his own initial life.
~ Michael Paterniti
Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!
~ Freddie Mercury
Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?
~ Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die
~ Andy Warhol
Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?
~ Wild Bill Hickok
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
~ B. B. King
Death is not the end, it is simply walking out of the physical form and into the spirit realm, which is our true home. It's going back home.... We unzip the body, so to speak, let it fall to the ground and walk through the next door clothed in our spiritual form, which was always there inside the physical body.
~ Stephen Christopher Dennis
All Dogs Go To Heaven? Sorry, kids. It's only the dogs who've accepted Christ.
~ Stephen Colbert
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
~ Stephen Gardiner
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
~ Stephen Hawking
Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let's take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132)
~ Stephen Levine
On July 13, 1994, Lint had a near-death experience, followed immediately by death.
~ Steve Aylett
If by dying for the cause you're going straight to Paradise to sit at your thundering god's right hand, death doesn't mean a whole lot." "Are people really that stupid?" "That's a rhetorical question, right?
~ Steve Perry
When you die you become a star. It's as simple and as complicated as that.
~ Steven Cooper
Dead ain't gone, and gone ain't dead.
~ Steven E. Wedel
Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.
~ Joe Hill
When you die, we go back to the white energy of all the white energy: white heat that's flung against the sky and becomes a star.
~ Clarence Clemons
I'm a Christian guy. I believe that we're going to heaven, and I believe when Dale Jr. and I drove off from Turn 4 at Daytona, I think that Dale Sr. had a smile on his face.
~ Michael Waltrip
Once you realise there's nothing to be afraid of when you die, there's nothing else to worry about.
~ Michael Thomas Ford
Just because you're dead doesn't mean you have to lay on your backside all day. - Aunt Polly
~ Michelle M. Pillow
I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again.
~ Philip Pullman
Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave.
~ Theodore Dreiser