After Death Quotes - Page 5

• If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

  Martial

  Fame, Ifs

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.225

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• I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

  Andrew Greeley

  Strong, Thinking, Doctrine

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

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• In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, People, Soul

  Steven Pinker (2003). “How the Mind Works”, p.494, Penguin UK

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• Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Men, Heard

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• (Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

  Saul Bellow

  Two, Soul, Would Be

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a fast game. Human beings are powerful and skillful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Journey, Other Worlds

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• Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Silence, Black

  Magdalena Da̧browski, Wassily Kandinsky, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1995). “Kandinsky compositions”

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• In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

  Francis Crick

  Believe, Independent, People

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• The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

  Phillips Brooks

  Easter, Forever, May

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• Does fashion matter? Always - though not quite as much after death.

  Joan Rivers

  Fashion, Doe, Matter

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

  Richard Anderson

  Drinking, Los Angeles, Life After Death

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• Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its future birth. Thus if one wants to attain god after death, one has to think of him steadfastly... This is not as simple as it sounds, for at the time of death the mind automatically flies to the thought of an object (i.e. money, love) which has possessed it during its sojourn in the world. Thus one must think of god constantly.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Simple, Thinking, Mind

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• The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx, was a clear and lucid Talmudist...full of that old Hebrew (sic) materialism which ever dreams of a paradise on earth and always rejects the hope held out of the chance of a Garden of Eden after Death.

  Bernard Lazare

  Dream, Garden, Russia

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• Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Somewhere Else, Paradise

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• One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Catholic, Last Words, Happens

  Last words, 1980.

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• Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible to get decent Chinese food.

  David Letterman

  Doubt, Chinese, Shadow

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• Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death.

  Dario Fo

  Drinking, Use, Wine Toast

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• Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

  Saint Augustine

  Punishment, Suffering, Lasts

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• Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Death, Men, Heaven

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• I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Country, Inspiration

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Science, Religion

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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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