Afterlife Quotes - Page 12

• My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

  David Cronenberg

  Thinking, Understanding, Body

  "Exclusive: David Cronenberg Knows What Defamer Is And Still Lets Us Interview Him". Defamer Interview, gawker.com. September 02, 2008.

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• In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

  John Updike

  Selfish, Party, Boys

  1989 Self-Consciousness, VI. 'On Being A Self Forever'.

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• God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Interest, Subjects

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.

  Dan Barker

  Atheist, Prayer, Book

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• ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

  Tom Robbins

  Life, Religious, Horse

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

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• George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.

  Michael Palin

  Death, Doe, Really Sad

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• Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Punishment, Expectations, Community

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• I was raised Catholic. I rejected it later on. I'm an outspoken atheist now. People say, 'Oh, it's a negative thing to be an atheist.' I don't agree. I think it's more optimistic to think that there is no God, no afterlife.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Atheist, Optimistic, Thinking

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• We are such skeptics that we find it difficult to believe in God and angels and a spiritual afterlife, but a moment of fear makes our spirit so vulnerable that it allows us to believe in something beyond that.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Spiritual, Believe, Angel

  Source: collider.com

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• If anyone can show me ... that there is any reason - other than fear - to believe in any version of an afterlife, I'll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.

  Tim Minchin

  Believe, Piano, Giving

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• Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to exalt a highly unlikely, unknowable, unseeable, unprovable and unbelievable pretend afterworld. The only afterlife that ought to concern us is leaving our descendants (along with the other animals and life we share our planet with) a secure and pleasant future.

  Annie Laurie Gaylor

  Lying, Animal, Order

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• Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the twain shall meet, in much the same way that Judeo-Christian theology presents its notion of the afterlife - there's a very clear and impermeable demarcation there.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Christian, Events, Horizon

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago. They serve no function in the planet's ecosystem, and no other species has survived so long while in such fundamental disagreement with observable reality. If I wasn't such an ardent believer in secular materialism, I'd wager this is really troubling Darwin in the afterlife.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reading, Reality, Ecosystems

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• If this world isn't good enough for us then an afterlife won't be enough.

  Fanny Howe

  World, Good Enough, Ifs

  Fanny Howe (2000). “Selected poems”

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• Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!

  Evelyn Underhill

  Mistake, Thinking, Body

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• I think you should enjoy this life that you are given on this earth because we really don't know what it is in the afterlife. We can definitely prove that this life is this life here because we wake up every day and do the same thing that we do.

  Charlie Benante

  Thinking, Wake Up, Earth

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• The afterlife I'm not so sure about. So, I don't understand why you'd want to hurt other people in thinking that you'll go on in the afterlife to have bliss. I just don't understand it.

  Charlie Benante

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• I have to conclude, oh, the best people are all somebody other than my own race. So that's difficult. How do we interpret the Bible? Should we stress things like justice and that God is somebody who cares about equality of all people? Or is he a God of love and a God who's there to give me an afterlife?

  Michael Emerson

  Stress, Race, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Why is it that almost every human culture yet discovered has found it necessary to believe in an afterlife of some sort, but not a 'before-life?' Why are there so many versions of Heaven, Paradise and The Great Beyond, but almost none about The Great Before.

  Judith Hayes

  Spring, Believe, Heaven

  Judith Hayes (2000). “The Happy Heretic”

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• [Søren ] Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, `You can't really think yourself into a faith, into a religion. It's something you have to make a leap into faith.' And I've never been able to do that. I wish I could. Then maybe I could believe in an afterlife.

  Nat Hentoff

  Believe, Thinking, Long

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• There's no question that ghosts exist. The big question for me is whether ghosts are simply electronic imprints left in the walls or the atmosphere of places, or whether they do actually represent something from the afterlife.

  Peter James

  Wall, Atmosphere, Ghost

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just an animal, then he doesn't live forever, he has no soul. And if men don't have a soul, then there's no afterlife. No heaven, no fiery deterrent of hell to keep people in line in this life. And if there's no fiery deterrent to keep people in line, "well then we might as well have hell on Earth!" the critics said.

  James Moore

  Animal, Men, Ideas

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". Interview with David Espar and Susan K. Lewis, www.pbs.org. 2001.

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• For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Justice, Mind

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• I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

  Margaret Millar

  Giving Up, Mind, Return

  J.J. MARRIC; MARGARET MILLAR; BILL KNOX (1977). “GIDEON'S DRIVE; ASK FOR ME TOMORROW; HELLSPOUT”

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• He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Jesus, Soldier, Details

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