Quotes About Afterlife

Can a heart break, once it's stopped beating?

They believe that the loved ones who have passed on are somehow looking down from heaven and watching out for them. All of that may feel nice, but there is no biblical basis for assuming it's true.

Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.

when you're dead, you just have to be yourself.

Taking on the afterlife one soul at a time.

When I die and go over there, is it alright if I carry you around one more time?" - Sado Yasutora

In the future whenever you fight there's one thing you have to make sure of. You mustn't die alone. Our bodies are konpaku. When we die, our bodies turn to dust and become the reishi that shapes the soul society. So what becomes of the heart? You leave your heart with your friends. That way your heart lives on in them. That's why, Rukia you mustn't die alone.

I'm not…dead yet. Breathing is so agonizing. To have to endure such agony just to live…living is so cumbersome. I was taught that you either go to heaven or hell when you die. I wonder if it's easy to breathe in heaven. A place where my body or my head won't hurt. I hope it is. Is hell an even more agonizing place than this? If it is, I'm scared. I don't want to go. I don't. I'm scared. I'm scared of going to hell.

The dead were gone and didn't know or care what they left behind.. If the dead still lived on the surface of this earth then it was in the minds of those who remembered them...

The Arda Viraf ("Viraf the just"), which was probably written during the Sassanid period, tells the story of a devout Zoroastrian who travels to heaven and hell and returns to Earth to report what he found. Several centuries later, Dante Alighieri (1265–1341) would write a similar but much longer work, the Divine Comedy, from a Christian perspective.

Pile up that gold around my head. I must take it with me to pay the ferryman.' 'I thought it was just a coin on the eyes or something.' 'Inflation. Also, I'll take up rather a lot of room on the boat.

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

All dreams continue in the beyond.

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that's death.

People who die bad don't stay in the ground.

The freezing in hell that comes before the everlasting fire where sinners bubble and singe forever.

You know as well as I do that people who die bad don't stay in the ground.

Medical and scientific resources are directed toward more life and fitter life and remind us that the desire is for earthbound eternity, rather than eternal afterlife. The implication being that this is all there is.

Dead can't do us no harm,' said Effie. 'Seen plenty o' haints in my time. All on the playful side. None never done me harm. All my hurts and pains come from the livin'.

If it wasn't for the roaming bands of dead, it might not be such a bad place.

I am no longer ashamed how for weeks, after, I wanted to be dead--not to die, mind you, or do myself in--but to be there already, walking amongst all those I'd lost, to join the throng singing, if that's what there is-- or the nothing, the gnawing-- So be it.

holding tight / to their pocketbooks / at the pearly gates / just in case.

The philosophy of religion has always been death-oriented instead of being life-oriented.