– Afterlife Quotes –
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
~ Edvard Munch
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
~ Beatrice Wood
Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.
~ William Mitford
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
~ Seneca
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
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
It is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. For life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means
~ Edgar Cayce
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
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
~ Edvard Munch
And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn’t reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
~ Barry McGuire
Death–the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
~ Walter Scott
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
When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. When you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
~ Tibetan Buddhist wisdom
How do you recover from an extraordinary loss? Take stock of the loved ones around you. Hug them, love them, and cherish them. When you appreciate the joys in your life, it makes sorrow that much easier to swallow.
~ Joseph Simmons
I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
~ Barry McGuire
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That’s what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.
~ Frank McCourt
Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.
~ Socrates
“Nothing really dies,” I told him. “It just turns into something else. Everything is always changing form. Do you remember the pumpkin that rotted into the earth in your garden? Tomatoes sprouted where it used to be. This bird will go back to the earth and turn into lavendar flowers and butterflies.”
~ Anne Cushman
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.
~ Jelaluddin Rumi
A Lizard continues it’s life into the wilderness like a human into heaven. Our fate is entirely dependent on our life.
~ Andrew Cornish
Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
~ Mother Teresa
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
People believe that death is a punishment from God rather than a natural progression, a doorway to other realities. By having such a grim perspective on death, they make it a fearful and painful experience.
~ Kuan Yin
I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are in eternity now.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.
~ Albus Dumbledore in “The Man with Two Faces,” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.
~ Socrates
It is important to accept that the human condition is temporary, fleeting. It’s filled with pain and suffering, beauty, strange tastes, odors of death; everything that exists in the universe. Problems are created when one is so obsessed with his/her own death, when one is too attached to their life.
~ Lena Lees
Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky.
~ Dilgo Rinpoche
We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?
~ Noel Coward
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
~ Jack Lemmon
You live on earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit.
~ White Eagle
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life…now…and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, “Did you bring joy?” The second was, “Did you find joy?”
~ Leo Buscaglia
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, “A Soldier of the Great War” (novel)
Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
~ R. W. Raymond
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven’s wonders.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
All are but parts of one stupendous whole whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
~ Alexander Pope
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience
~ Wayne Dyer
