Afterlife Quotes - Page 11

• People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

  John Green

  Alaska, Ideas, People

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.79, Penguin

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• I’m the god of funerals. I know every death custom in the world—how to die properly, how to prepare the body and soul for the afterlife. I live for death.” “You must be fun at parties,” I said.

  Rick Riordan

  Fun, Party, Soul

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.283, Penguin UK

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• Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what won the Academy Award for best picture, and then you can remember the one that didn't. And then sometimes in the afterlife, films that were not successful at all become these giant successes.

  Sherry Lansing

  Successful, Awards, Giants

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.

  Joe Meno

  Tragedy, Triumph, Moments

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.285, Akashic Books

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• The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.

  Anna Godbersen

  Flaws, Made, Passing

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• We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Alive, Mines

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky: A Memoir”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't believe in an afterlife.

  Antony Sher

  Believe, Don't Believe

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• After all the dangerous adventures I'd had, I couldn't die like this. Sadie would be devastated. Then, once she got over her grief, she'd track down my soul in the Egyptian afterlife and tease me mercilessly for how stupid I'd been.

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Grief, Adventure

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• It was like I’d stepped out into an afterlife. Only there were no angels.

  Lucy Christopher

  Angel

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.19, Scholastic Inc.

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• And if someone doesn’t believe in any afterlife?” I asked. Walt gave me a sad look. “Then that’s what they experience.

  Rick Riordan

  Believe, Looks, Walt

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• I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an afterlife. And I don't.

  David Cronenberg

  Religious, Real, Believe

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• Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

  Mark Twain

  School, Holiday, Fishing

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4550, Delphi Classics

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• Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.

  Bill Maher

  People, Drug, Over You

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• I believe that everybody, whether you believe in the afterlife or the chance of a near-death experience and you come back and you see someone [on the other side] - whether that has happened or not, I don't know, but certainly everyone has thought about it at some point or another in time. It's a fantasy that if there is anything out there like that, it would be just terrific, but that remains to be seen.

  Clint Eastwood

  Believe, Sides, Would Be

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• A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Condolences, Sight

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.

  Peter O'Toole

  Good Life, Long, Actors

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• Continued traveling is far from productive. It begins with wearing away the soles of the shoes, and making the feet sore, and erelong it will wear a man clean up, after making his heart sore into the bargain. I have observed that the afterlife of those who have traveled much is very pathetic.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Heart, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.455, e-artnow

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• Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?" "And you say there's no afterlife.

  John Green

  Asks

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.100, Penguin

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• I don't know what you believe in. I believe we just stop. Because if we move on to an afterlife, any kind of afterlife, that means there will be other people there. I'm tired of the chit chat. Oh, that is a handsome boy. He takes after his grandfather. Did they change the breakfast again? It tastes different to me. For Eternity? No thanks.

  Joey Comeau

  Believe, Moving, Tired

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• The afterlife looks different to every soul," he said, "depending on whatthey believe. For that guy, Egypt must've made a strong impression when he was young , maybe." "And if someone doesn't believe in any afterlife?" i asked. Walt gave me a sad look. "Then that's what they experience.

  Rick Riordan

  Strong, Believe, Egypt

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.835, Penguin UK

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• If I lost him here, to this idiotic fight, after I fought and guarded him for two weeks, after I cried and thought he was dying, I would find him in the afterlife and I would murder him again.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fighting, Two, Dying

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• People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

  John Green

  Hipster, Alaska, People

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.79, Penguin

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• I believe that no matter what happens, or where we go, or if there's an afterlife, that we'll always be connected. Not even death can make me forget you, or forget that I love you.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Believe, Love You, Matter

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• Reincarnation?” He shrugged. “I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.

  Patricia Briggs

  Real, Believe, Reincarnation

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.187, Penguin

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• Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Location

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