Quotes About Afterlife

How can you believe in heaven if you don't believe in hell?

He said that a Godless life would not prepare one for a Godless death. To that I have no answer.

I suppose it should be a comfort to understand that one cannot be dead forever where there's no forever to be dead in.

If there was a heaven, was it nor founded upon the writhing bodies of the damned?

do you think if you died drunk you'd sober up before you met Jesus?

He had asked her if she believed in an afterlife and she said that she did not discount such a thing. That it could be. She just doubted that it could be for her. If there was a heaven, was it not founded upon the writhing bodies of the damned? Lastly she said that God was not interested in our theology but only in our silence.

Has pensado alguna vez en la muerte? Sí. A veces. ¿Y tú? Sí. A veces. ¿Crees que existe un cielo? Sí. ¿Tú no? No lo sé. Quizá sí. ¿Crees que puedes creer en el cielo si no crees en el infierno? Creo que puedes creer lo que quieras.

I think the dead have no nationality.

Where do we go when we die? he said. I dont know, the man said. Where are we now?

Nadie puede sobornar a la muerte, Billy Said. De veras. Nadie. Nor God. Nor God. Billy watched the light bring up the shapes of the water standing in the fields beyond the roadway. Where do we go when we die? he said. I don't know, the man said. Where are we now?

If there is an afterlife - and I pray most fervently that there is not - I can only hope that they wont sing.

Perhaps it's true that death is only the beginning of a new story, but no one has ever read the book in which it's written.

He had never taken any interest in what came after death, either in this world or the other one. Probably just silence, silence without a single word of comfort.

Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.

Exactly, I will lay down the law for nobody, not even myself. The thought of death and the afterlife saves me from doing any more. . . . As the thought of Eternity helps me.

The dead don't die. They look on and help.

I do believe that there's life after love, and also that there is love, still, after a life is over.

I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me.

[Linus:] After you've died, do you get to come back?[Charlie Brown:] If they stamp your hand.

When you die, are you ever allowed to come back?" "Only if you had your hand stamped...

Sometimes I think that hell is two places: it's a place you end up, but it's also a place that you live before you get there.

Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home.

She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way; but west Texas had given her something more concrete upon which to dread the afterlife.