After Death Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death

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• The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

  John Dryden

  Men, Afterlife, Burden

  John Dryden (1859). “The poetical works of John Dryden”, p.132

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• Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.

  Billy Graham

  Death, Home, Reality

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• It would be fair in terms of justice that those who believe in 'Life After Death' live much less than those who do not believe in such a thing!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Believe, Justice

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• I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Giving, Wish, Doe

  Sandra Cisneros (2015). “A House of My Own: Stories from My Life”, p.321, Vintage

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• The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Government, Should Have, People

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• There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

  Jupiter Hammon

  White, Two, Heaven

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Hate, Stink, Repeats

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• I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Believe, Destiny, Safety

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I ever had on Earth. I wish I could say that in that moment in the kitchen she decided to quit drinking, but I now saw that drinking was a part of what made her who she was. If the worst of what she left on Earth was a legacy of inebriated support, it was a good legacy in my book. ~Susie's grandmother, Lynn pgs 315-316

  Alice Sebold

  Drinking, Book, Grandmother

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• Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Regret, First Love

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 31, song (added 1850)

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• The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunger for life after death(on Russian slave laborers.)

  Sophie Scholl

  World, Satisfaction, Hunger

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• Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

  Garth Nix

  Mystery, Sabriel

  Garth Nix (2014). “Sabriel”, p.12, Hot Key Books

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• Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.

  Iain Banks

  Possibility Of Change, Mutation, Development

  Iain M. Banks (2001). “Look to Windward”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a moment after death when things can go one of several ways, when souls can mingle and reunite-or be forever parted. Fate throws the bones, and hearts are mended, or shattered. What tips the balance in one's favor? Is it Mercy, or Grace, or Justice-the names of the three brightest angels? Or is it Love, the name of the One True Being?

  Nancy Holder

  Heart, Angel, Fate

  Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguie (2010). “Wicked: Resurrection”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.

  Franz Kafka

  Night, Men, Solitude

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• The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.

  P. C. Cast

  Color, Choices, Parent

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Destined”, p.273, Macmillan

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• Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the loss of the world of senses is possible, I shall grieve for no person however once agonisingly desired and passionately beloved, for no emotional adventure however uplifting, for no success however warming, no infamy however exhilarating, for nothing half so much as I shall grieve to the loss of the earth itself, the soil, the seeds, the plants, the very weeds... It is a love almost overriding my love the words that could express that love.

  Hal Porter

  Uplifting, Weed, Adventure

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• The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another.

  Julius Caesar

  Warrior, Fearless, Soul

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• Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived before on the earth thousands of years ago or on some other planet. They say we have forgotten it. Some say they remember their past lives.

  James Joyce

  Believe, Past, Years

  James Joyce (2016). “Ulysses”, p.66, First Avenue Editions

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• Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Forever, Soul

  "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus".

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• Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survival after death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a man for the hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Book, Men

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is for all Men that come into the World once to Die, and after Death the Judgment; and since Death is a Debt that all of us must pay, it is but a matter of small moment what way it be done.

  Richard Rumbold

  Life, Death, Men

  Colonel Richard Rum­bold's last speech at the Market-Cross of Edin­burgh, tei.it.ox.ac.uk. June 26, 1685.

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