Afterlife Quotes - Page 13

• I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.

  Brenda Ueland

  Children, Memories, Flower

  Brenda Ueland (1939). “Me”

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• Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.

  Jane Roberts

  Personality, Doe, Reason

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• If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.

  Jane Roberts

  Believe, Personality, Rockets

  Jane Roberts (2000). “ESP Power”, p.248, Frederick Fell Publishers

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• Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more - hear more - and know more. All of it cannot die.

  Kate Greenaway

  Beautiful, Wonderful, Another Life

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• I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

  Muriel Spark

  Country, Believe, Flying

  Muriel Spark (1994). “The Driver's Seat”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

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• Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

  Edward Abbey

  Believe, Feet, Rocks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• Some people like when it rains a lot. Some people like sunshine. The idea that there's one, all encompassing afterlife is strange. It doesn't seem to make sense because we're all such different people.

  Drew Goddard

  Rain, Sunshine, Ideas

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever.

  Ann Druyan

  Taken, Eye, Feel Better

  "Billions and Billions". Book by Carl Sagan, epilogue, p. 271, 1997.

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• Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition of Bladerunner, with the nostalgia of New Orleans. With crisp and beautiful prose, AFTERLIFE blurs the line between the living and the dead to ask life's ultimate questions-even if they take nine lives to solve.

  Tosca Lee

  Beautiful, New Orleans, Breathing

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• I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Lost Love, Future

  "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill".

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• I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

  Charles Van Doren

  Teaching, Writing, Work Out

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• If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.

  Armond White

  Marketing, Nihilism, Would Be

  "Armond White trollin': Calls Res Evil 'superior to Inception on every level.'" by Vince Mancini, uproxx.com. September 16, 2010.

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• Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style

  Jurgen Habermas

  Art, War, Technology

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• In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

  Hugo Black

  War, Government, Political

  "New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713". Concurring opinion, 1971.

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• We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

  Susan Jacoby

  Citizens, Earth, Want

  "The Blessings of Atheism". www.nytimes.com. Jane 5, 2013.

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• ... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

  Art Buchwald

  Funny Graduation, Profound, Speech

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• Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve?

  Davy Jones

  Years, Choices, Different

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• Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.

  John Smith

  Spiritual, Garden, Hunting

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• I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content - a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father. I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals, feasts, shrines, pilgrimages, communal meals and illustrated manuscripts of the faiths.

  Alain de Botton

  Atheist, Giving Up, Memories

  "Katie Antoniou interviews Alain de Botton on his new book 'Religion for Atheists'". Interview with Katie Antoniou, www.run-riot.com. January 24, 2012.

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• This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers constantly of their mortality and to convince them that the afterlife itself is under the personal management of the particular gods they are promoting. The self-protective urges of their worshippers will do the rest.

  Desmond Morris

  Powerful, Self, Giving

  Desmond Morris (1977). “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior”

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• If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logically the existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.

  Tim Minchin

  Spiritual, Believe, Race

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• About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Christian, Religious, Mean

  Kurt Vonnegut (2001). “God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Wise, Teaching, Ignorance

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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• Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Laughter, Roof Over Your Head

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Good Morning, Death, Sleep

  Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (2011). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself”, p.288, Cambridge University Press

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