Afterlife Quotes - Page 6

• Most people call it The Book of the Dead,” he told me. “Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It’s like an Idiot’s Guide to the Afterlife.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Land, People

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  World, Might, Borges

  Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Since there is absolutely no logical reason to assume there is an afterlife, I decided to make the life I have now as much fun as possible.

  Ricky Gervais

  Fun, Assuming, Reason

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Nov 12, 2013

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• I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.

  Tony Judt

  Believe, People, Multiple

  "A Historian's Long View On Living With Lou Gehrig's". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 29, 2010.

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• The religious fanatic who practices terrorism cannot be reasoned with, because there is nothing you can threaten him with, and no alternative you can offer him that is more palatable than his genuine belief that if he dies fighting you, he will be greatly rewarded in afterlife. Only swift and extreme force can stop him.

  Massad Ayoob

  Religious, Fighting, Practice

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

  John Dryden

  Men, Burden, After Death

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

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• Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.

  John Amery

  Tonight, Radio, Steps

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• Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

  Madame de Stael

  Sight, Opposites, Divine Wisdom

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• Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Belief, Life Is, Reason

  "Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen".

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• It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.

  Kate Atkinson

  Life, Impossible, Ends

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.201, Random House

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• We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know that we're only given eighty summers or so per lifetime, and each one has to be better then the last, has to encompass a trip to that arts center up at Bard, a seemingly mellow game of badminton over at some yahoo's Vermont cottage, and a cool, wet, slightly dangerous kayak trip down an unforgiving river. Otherwise, how would you know that you have lived your summertime best? What is you missed out on some morsel of shaded nirvana?

  Gary Shteyngart

  Summer, Art, Believe

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

  William Wordsworth

  Sleep, Infancy Is, Eulogy

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.

  Greg Graffin

  Fear, Live Life, Opportunity

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• The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Race, Personality

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• I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.

  Joanne Harris

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• I had hoped to hear the President tonight tell the Congress and the American people exactly how he plans to tackle some of the important issues facing this country, unfortunately I did not.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Country, Issues, People

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• The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limodriver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Sex, Cutting

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• Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Government, Heaven

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• Is there a God? Is there an afterlife?... I think that now, more so than ever, people are much more willing to take the time and question what's out there.

  Ryan Buell

  Thinking, People, Ghost

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• I don't believe in reincarnation, and I didn't believe in it when I was a hamster.

  Shane Richie

  Funny, Believe, Reincarnation

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• The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we are not to have in the other world. We are to be so taken up with Jesus and angels, that we shall care nothing about our brothers and sisters that have been damned. We shall be so carried away with the music of the harp that we shall not even hear the wail of father and mother. Such a religion is a disgrace to human nature.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Brother, Jesus

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• The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.

  Neal Asher

  Comforting, Vision, Deities

  Neal Asher (2009). “The Line of Polity”, p.261, Pan Macmillan

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• The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.

  Aimee Carter

  Believe, Soul, Wish

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• I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.

  Natalie Portman

  Believe, Way To Live, Best Way

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• I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all going to die, that is the end of all consciousness. There is no afterlife. There is no God. Now what do we do.' That's the point where it starts getting interesting to me.

  David Cronenberg

  Interesting, Forever, Consciousness

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