After Death Quotes - Page 3

• If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

  Kurt Cobain

  Hope, Soul, Dying

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• But that the dread of something after death,
  The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
  No traveller returns, puzzles the will
  And makes us rather bear those ills we have
  Than fly to others that we know not of?

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Country

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

  Socrates

  Life, Death, Cheer

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• The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Real, Alive

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  If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, If There Is A God, God And Life

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• It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life, I would be rewarded after death. Those beliefs, sincerely held, can get a human being through many hard times.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Powerful, Good Life, Hard Times

  Bill O'Reilly (2013). “Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World”, p.39, Crown Archetype

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• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Personality, Catholic, Doubt

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• And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Life Changing, World, Might

  "The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer".

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• He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.

  Socrates

  Cheer, Other Worlds, May

  "Phaedo". Book by Plato,

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• To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and control. Even after death, most particularly after death, the search continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete the scheme, in ritual. Picture a state funeral, Jack. It is all precision, detail, order, design. The nation holds its breath. - (WN 292)

  Don DeLillo

  Order, Design, Funeral

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• This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than any belief in the history of mankind. Yet this doctrine was taught unambiguously by Jesus.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Jesus, Religion, Atheism

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• Perhaps there is no life after death....there's just Los Angeles.

  Richard Anderson

  Drinking, Los Angeles, Life After Death

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• Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

  Umberto Eco

  Attitude, Origin Of Life, Fundamentals

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• It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Death, Religious, Atheist

  "Religion and Science", New York Times Magazine, November 9, 1930.

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• We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Angel, Dark

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

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• For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death.

  Alexander Monro

  Blood, Brain, Disease

  Alexander Monro (1994). “Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System”

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• It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Fellow Man, Spirit

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.18

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• Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Dying, Answers, Life After Death

  E.L. Doctorow (2009). “Homer & Langley: A Novel”, p.101, Random House

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• (After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire is continuation of what they had in life no matter how misguided or degraded. . . Will those people ever progress, even with our help?

  Richard Matheson

  People, Progress, Desire

  Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.145, Tor Books

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• Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease, so bend. The sun is in the tree. Put your mouth on mine. Bend down beam & slash, for Dread is dreamed-up-scenes of what comes after death. Is being fled from what bends down in pain. The elbow bends in the brain, lifts the cup. The worst is yet to dream you up, so bend down the intrigue you dreamed. Flee the hayneedle in the brain's tree. Excess allures by leaps. Stars burn clean. Oriole bitches and gleams. Dread is the fear of being less forever. So bend. Bend down and kiss what you see.

  Stan Rice

  Dream, Stars, Pain

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• The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Science, Religion

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• The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.

  Terry Pratchett

  Tree, Paper, Clean

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• What makes people want to live forever? I don't think it's limited to our materialistic society of today. Even back to Christian times, they were writing about eternal life after death. So even in death there was a discussion of eternal life. I think this is a universal human desire. It's a horrible thought that this conscious being of ours - with our beautiful bodies - is one day going to decay and die. I don't think it so much has to do with the fear of meeting God, as it is just the thought that this all ends.

  Michael Savage

  Beautiful, Christian, Writing

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• Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

  Isabel Allende

  Two, Silence, Noise

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• I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less than possible concrete evidence of life after death - weren't they at least worth a visit?

  Tom Shroder

  Ideas, Atheism, Life After Death

  Tom Shroder (1999). “Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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