Afterlife Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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 is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.

  Franz von Papen

  Party, Leader, Movement

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 2, p. 918, 1946.

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• I will take my leave of you, but I will remember you always because you are the ones who encouraged me and lifted me up high. I will remember you forever, forever, even in the afterlife.

  Samia Gamal

  Remember You, Remembers You, Dancing

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• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING.

  Lucy Ellmann

  Expression, Agony, Shopping

  Lucy Ellmann (2013). “Dot in the Universe”, p.164, A&C Black

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• Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Travel, Journey, World

  Bruce Chatwin (2012). “The Songlines”, p.228, Random House

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• How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell.

  Phil Plait

  Father, Thinking, Magic

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• We obey people we don't trust, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like, using money we don't have, for gratifications that don't last, killing animals we don't hate, for pleasures that don't satisfy, dreaming of a life we don't deserve, and praying for an afterlife that doesn't exist, we are a stupid species

  Philip Wollen

  Life, Trust, Dream

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• It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.

  David G. McAfee

  Happy Life, Time On Earth, Disease

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Mar 22, 2014

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• It occurs to me as I write that this "white light," usually presented dippily (evidence of afterlife, higher power), is in fact precisely consistent with the oxygen deficit that occurs as blood flow to the brain decreases. "Everything went white," those whose blood pressure has dropped say of the instant before they faint.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, White, Light

  Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.156, Vintage

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• I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

  Veronica Roth

  Life, Believe, Feelings

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• As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.

  Robin Hobb

  Mistake, Dying, Panic

  Robin Hobb (2008). “Renegade’s Magic (The Soldier Son Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.58, HarperCollins UK

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• To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

  Tom Robbins

  Heaven, Hell, Deny

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

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• This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.

  Daniel Wallace

  Keys, Lasts, Last Words

  Daniel Wallace (1999). “Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions”, Penguin Group USA

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• R.I.P. Steve Jobs. I bet you're busy right now revolutionizing and redesigning the afterlife for all of us to enjoy when our time comes

  Joe Satriani

  Jobs, Busy, Enjoy

  FaceBook post by Joe Satriani from Oct 06, 2011

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• Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.

  Marcus Borg

  Blessed, Self, Imagine

  "Marcus Borg, Liberal Scholar on Historical Jesus, Dies at 72" by Laurie Goodstein, www.nytimes.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

  Rumi

  Death, Religion, Dying

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• Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

  Henry David Thoreau

  World, Earth

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• It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

  John Phillips

  Travel, Home, Adventure

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