80 Afterlife Quotes

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The unconscious psyche believes in life after death - Carl Jung

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death — Carl Jung

After you die, you wear what you are. — Teresa of Avila

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. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

When you die, i.e., when your physical body is finished with this earth ... and your astral entity goes on to the astral world ... it has to stand alone and answer for successes and failures. — Lobsang Rampa

Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead — H. L. Mencken

I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife — Kurt Gödel

„Everyone wants to believe that there’s something else – something great – waiting for them on the other side. Paradise. Valhalla. Heaven. Their next – hopefully less horrible – life. — Meg Cabot

What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you — Louis C. K.

Death is just life's next big adventure. - J. K. Rowling

Death is just life's next big adventure. — J. K. Rowling

The body without soul is no longer at the sacrifice. At the day of death it come to rebirth. The divine spirit will make the soul rejoice seeing the eternity of the world. — Nostradamus

This life is only a prelude to eternity. — Seneca

If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations. — Desmond Tutu

I have good hope that there is something after death. — Plato

Life is a dream walking death is a going home. — Chinese Proverbs

After your death you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer

After your death you will be what you were before your birth. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Short Afterlife Quotes

  • Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light. — John Lennox
  • The golden age is before us, not behind us. — William Shakespeare
  • Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you will die tomorrow. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • I don't believe in reincarnation, and I didn't believe in it when I was a hamster. — Shane Richie
  • I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live. — Natalie Portman
  • Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again. — Robert Browning
  • I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. — David Gilmour
  • For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be. — Kevin Spacey
  • There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this. — Paulo Coelho
  • I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can. — Julia Sawalha

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There Is No Afterlife Quotes

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

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

If thirst for water indicates the existence of water, in a similar way thirst for justice indicates the existence of justice, and since there is no justice in this world, this is indicates the presence of an afterlife, the home of true justice. — Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

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

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

The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought. — Woody Allen

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it. — Christopher Hitchens

Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking. — Jane Roberts

To be ruthless requires belief that our life on earth is but a brief prelude to an afterlife, or a temporary sacrifice before some utopia can be instituted. Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. — Eric Hoffer

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. — Stephen Hawking

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More Afterlife Quotes

It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful. — Stephen Hawking

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

You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been. — Frank Mir

So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident that the one who has buoyed us up in life will also buoy us up through death. We die into God. What more that means, I do not know. But that is all I need to know. — Marcus Borg

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. — Isaac Asimov

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. — Carl Sagan

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

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

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored' — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife. — Kahlil Gibran

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

Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There’s nowhere to go. There’s nothing else to be. There’s no destination. It’s not something to aim for in the afterlife. It’s simply the quality of this moment. — Buddha

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

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. — William Wordsworth

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead. — Kurt Vonnegut

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. — Douglas Adams

I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown. — Hilary Duff

People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality. — Kurt Cobain

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

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

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. — Joseph De Maistre

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death. — Robert Vaughn

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

Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife. — Greg Graffin

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

Our faith should be expressed in working toward a better planet for our children and not the selfish, juvenile hope for a better afterlife for ourselves. I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others. — Greg Graffin

If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the afterlife. You're missing out on the afterlife you looked forward to in your last existence by worrying about your next life. This is what happens after you die. Take a look. — Brad Warner

Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world. — Henry Miller

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person. — Anton Chekhov

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

I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers. — Raymond Moody

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters. — Timothy Keller

I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only "afterlife" is what other people remember of you. — Craig Venter

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence. — John Bolton

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret? — Peter Matthiessen

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