Afterlife Quotes - Page 3

• I don't believe in the afterlife.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Believe, Don't Believe

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• I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

  Rachael Taylor

  Awards, Office, Forever

  "Talking About Ghosts with Rachael Taylor". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

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• I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

  David Eagleman

  What Matters, Joy, Lenses

  "David Eagleman: 'We won't die - our consciousness will live forever on the internet'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.

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• I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you, and that leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, World, Littles

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• I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Believe, Thinking, Notes

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• The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Boys, Envy, Water

  "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

  Steven Morrissey

  Song, Astonishing

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• The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down.

  Woody Allen

  Depressing, Done, May

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

  Bob Riley

  Military, Men, Sometimes

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• On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Gold, Purses, Firsts

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.42, Mondial

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• In one sense there is no death. The life of a soul on earth lasts beyond departure. You will always feel that life touching yours, that voice speaking to you. He/She lives on in your life and in the lives of all others that knew him/her.

  Angelo Patri

  Life, Death, Spiritual

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• War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

  James Madison

  War, Progress, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• I had hoped God would be neutral.

  Darrell Royal

  Would Be

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• I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Children, Actors, Expected

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• Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Love, Death, Pain

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• I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

  Patty Duke

  Believe, Life And Death, Actresses

  Patty Duke (1992). “A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-depressive Illness”, Bantam

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• I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

  David Gilmour

  Atheist, Belief

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• Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

  N. T. Wright

  Dream, Thinking, Race

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• I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

  Maurice Sendak

  Brother, Believe, Stills

  "Maurice Sendak: On Life, Death And Children's Lit". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2011.

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• I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

  William Ames

  Heard, All Things, Knows

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Family, Eccentric, Born

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

  Lena Horne

  White, Hollywood, Imitation

  "Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" by Susan Ratcliffe, (p. 208), 2012.

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• Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.

  Mark Helprin

  Death, Prayer, Pain

  Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt

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• I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Death, Believe

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