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Quotes About Hereafter

People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But those who do, and then take refuge in His Mercy and rely on His Power, see this desolate world transformed into a place of rest and felicity, a place of exchange for the Hereafter.
~ Said Nursi
Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.
~ T. S. Eliot
Every sound reason is on the side of law and order in their insistence that the eternity of joy be reserved for the hereafter, and in their endeavor to subordinate the struggle against death and disease to the never-ceasing requirements of national and international security.
~ Herbert Marcuse
Love the people you think you'd want to be with in the hereafter.
~ Omar Suleiman
At the worst it can only be death, and a man's death is not a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. God help me in my task! Goodbye, Mina, if I fail. Goodbye, my faithful friend and second father. Goodbye, all, and last of all Mina! Same
~ Bram Stoker
More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.
~ Brian Eno
Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.
~ Studs Terkel
My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.
~ Sun Myung Moon
Everything seemed to be a clue to the hereafter, now that one of her own had gone there.
~ Cathie Pelletier
Men are too often harsh with women they love or have loved; women with men. And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to-day towards yesterday, of hereafter towards to-day.
~ Thomas Hardy
Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.
~ Henry Burton
Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.
~ Bible
Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
~ Michael R. Burch
Better is it now to purify the soul from sin, than to cling to sins from which we must be purged hereafter. Truly we deceive ourselves by the inordinate love which we bear towards the flesh.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being -- not a constant state -- that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The only consciousness that persists in the hereafter is the consciousness of pain.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
A wonderful point in favor of some kind of hereafter is this: When the mind rejects as childishly absurd a paradise with musical angels or abstract colonnades with Horace and Milton in togas conversing and walking together through the eternal twilight, or the protracted voluptas of the orient or any other eternity -- such as the one with devils and porcupines -- we forget that if we could have imagined life before living it would have seemed more improbable than all our hereafters
~ Vladimir Nabokov
A "B" when you (be - here) and a "B" when you (be-gone ).
~ Charmie Johnson
Nature is my God. I don't believe in the hereafter. This world is where we get all our punishment.
~ Hampton Sides
The Imam posits that the treatment of wantonness is to intentionally experience hunger and to reflect seriously on death and the Hereafter.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Act for your world as if you will live forever, and act for your Hereafter as if you are going to die tomorrow.
~ Hamza Yusuf
One should instead desire what will serve one's Hereafter.
~ Hamza Yusuf
I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.
~ Heber J. Grant