quotes about Afterlife
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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.
-- Abu Bakar BashirSource : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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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 ChamissoSource : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.42, Mondial
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The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.
-- Aimee Carter -
If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
-- Al-Ghazali -
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Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
-- Al-Ghazali -
We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.
-- Amanda LindhoutSource : Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky: A Memoir”, p.319, Simon and Schuster
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The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.
-- Anna Godbersen -
If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.
-- Armond WhiteSource : "Armond White trollin': Calls Res Evil 'superior to Inception on every level.'" by Vince Mancini, uproxx.com. September 16, 2010.
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... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.
-- Art Buchwald -
The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are lured with promises of pie in the sky and simultaneously terrorized by the threats of extreme nastiness in the eternal afterlife in hell.
-- Barbara G. Walker -
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 -
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
-- Beatrice Wood -
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The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
-- Bill Cosby -
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 -
That's human nature - we want to completely rewrite history so it can be comfortable. Without getting too profound, I'm pretty sure that's where the invention of the afterlife comes from. "We don't really become worm food. We go to a magical place with bunnies and rainbows."
-- Bobcat GoldthwaitSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
-- Bonnie Raitt -
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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 WarnerSource : Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.135, Simon and Schuster
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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 -
I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.
-- Charlotte Gainsbourg -
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When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.
-- Christopher Walken -
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.
-- Clay Aiken -
We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.
-- Cynthia WeilSource : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
-- Dan Aykroyd -
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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 WallaceSource : Daniel Wallace (1999). “Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions”, Penguin Group USA
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All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
-- Dave Grohl -
My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.
-- David CronenbergSource : "Exclusive: David Cronenberg Knows What Defamer Is And Still Lets Us Interview Him". Defamer Interview, gawker.com. September 02, 2008.
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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 -
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 -
We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
-- David EaglemanSource : "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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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. McAfeeSource : FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Mar 22, 2014
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I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife...
-- David Gilmour -
tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.
-- David Levithan -
Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!
-- Davy Jones -
Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve?
-- Davy Jones -
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I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.
-- Deborah FeldmanSource : Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.105, Simon and Schuster
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This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers constantly of their mortality and to convince them that the afterlife itself is under the personal management of the particular gods they are promoting. The self-protective urges of their worshippers will do the rest.
-- Desmond Morris -
In the afterlife you don't have to worry about looking for work.
-- Ed Wood -
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 -
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I'm going to dance in all the galaxies.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
... You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it, not even at the cost of your tears. So I go to my grave an unrepentant sinner, I’m afraid. There is no use in mourning one such as I, dearest... -Simon to Lucy in a letter before the last duel.
-- Elizabeth Hoyt -
Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!
-- Evelyn Underhill -
Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.
-- Evelyn Waugh -
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
-- Fay Wray -
I believe there's more than this-that maybe when we die our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what people try to sum up as the afterlife. Something else is going to happen and it's going to be crazy and confusing and weird, and we probably won't know what it's all about. It'll just be another place where we're trying to understand why we exist at all.
-- Flying LotusSource : Interview with Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. September 10, 2014.
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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 -
My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured.
-- Frederick William Borden -
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Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.
-- Gail ParentSource : Gail Parent (2004). “Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York”, p.135, The Overlook Press
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
-- George Carlin -
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 -
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 -
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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 -
There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.
-- Herbert Spencer -
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 -
If I lost him here, to this idiotic fight, after I fought and guarded him for two weeks, after I cried and thought he was dying, I would find him in the afterlife and I would murder him again.
-- Ilona Andrews -
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I promise to love you forever in this life and wherever we go in the afterlife, because I know I can't go on in any life unless you're in it too.
-- J.A. Redmerski -
I believe that no matter what happens, or where we go, or if there's an afterlife, that we'll always be connected. Not even death can make me forget you, or forget that I love you.
-- J.A. RedmerskiSource : Interview With Matthew Broderick, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 22, 2010.
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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 -
I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.
-- James L. Buckley -
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The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just an animal, then he doesn't live forever, he has no soul. And if men don't have a soul, then there's no afterlife. No heaven, no fiery deterrent of hell to keep people in line in this life. And if there's no fiery deterrent to keep people in line, "well then we might as well have hell on Earth!" the critics said.
-- James MooreSource : "Big Thinkers on Evolution". Interview with David Espar and Susan K. Lewis, www.pbs.org. 2001.
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If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.
-- Jane Roberts -
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 -
I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
-- Jarvis Cocker -
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Texas Governor Rick Perry now says his wife has been encouraging him to run for President. Remember first he told us God told him to run; now his wife is telling him to run. Of course, the big difference; if you ignore what God says you don't have to hear about it until the afterlife. That's the only difference.
-- Jay Leno -
We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.
-- Jerome Cavanagh -
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 -
It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.
-- Joe MenoSource : Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.285, Akashic Books
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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 -
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 -
During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.
-- John Boehner -
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 -
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My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.
-- John EdwardSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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 -
For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.
-- Kevin Spacey -
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Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
-- Khalil -
I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife
-- Kurt Gödel -
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 HorneSource : "Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" by Susan Ratcliffe, (p. 208), 2012.
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
-- Lillian Hellman -
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I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.
-- Lily ColeSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true.... If you do something for a religious reason, you do it because you'll be rewarded in an afterlife or in this world. That's not quite as good as something you do for purely generous reasons.
-- Lisa RandallSource : Interview with Corey S. Powell, discovermagazine.com. July 29, 2006.
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I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.
-- Lotte Lehmann -
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
-- Louis D. Brandeis -
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It was like I’d stepped out into an afterlife. Only there were no angels.
-- Lucy Christopher -
We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.
-- Mahmoud AbbasSource : "Today" on BBC Radio 4, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2005.
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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 -
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 BorgSource : Marcus Borg (2012). “Speaking Christian: Recovering the lost meaning of Christian words”, p.107, SPCK
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I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.
-- Margaret MillarSource : J.J. MARRIC; MARGARET MILLAR; BILL KNOX (1977). “GIDEON'S DRIVE; ASK FOR ME TOMORROW; HELLSPOUT”
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He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.
-- Marilynne Robinson -
I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
-- Marina Abramovic -
She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn't. There was a house, and then no house. There were trees, but none remain. When no one remembers, what is there? You, whose moments are gone, who drift like smoke in the afterlife, tell me something, tell me anything.
-- Mark StrandSource : Mark Strand (2012). “Almost Invisible: Poems”, p.38, Knopf
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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 -
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
-- Michael Ignatieff -
George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.
-- Michael Palin -
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to the dominant philosophical historiography: the laughers materialists radicals cynics hedonists atheists sensualists voluptuaries. They know that there is only one world and that promotion of an afterlife deprives us of the enjoyment and benefit of the only one there is. A genuinely deadly sin.
-- Michel OnfraySource : Michel Onfray, Jeremy Leggatt (2007). “Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam”, p.219, Arcade Publishing
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I had hoped that he has mouth smell or something other repelling, but nothing! It was even charming.
-- Michelle Hunziker -
I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.
-- Muriel SparkSource : Muriel Spark (1994). “The Driver's Seat”, p.68, New Directions Publishing
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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 -
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 AsherSource : Neal Asher (2009). “The Line of Polity”, p.261, Pan Macmillan
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