Quotes About Afterlife

When we killed - or exiled - God we also killed ourselves. Did we notice sufficiently at the time? No God, no afterlife, no us. We were right to kill Him, of course, this long-standing imaginary friend of ours. And we weren't going to get an afterlife anyway. But we sawed off the branch we were sitting on. And the view from there, from that height - even if it was only the illusion of a view - wasn't so bad.

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose/With my lost saints/I love thee with the breath/Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose/I shall but love thee better after death.

You! You are so lucky you're dead.

Bodies are just leftovers, not the real event on death.

I don't actually live here, Reggie said. Who does live here then? Ms. MacDonald, except that she doesn't because she's dead. Everyone's dead. I'm not, Jackson said. You're not.

She was real and she was dead. And she was out there somewhere.

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.

The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death.

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

Dead men have no victory.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.