After Death Quotes

In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at least know the answer when you were dead.
- Douglas Adams

So then, what do you believe in?
Sex and death. Two things that come once in my lifetime. But at least
after death you're not nauseous.
- Woody Allen

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
- Isabel Allende

I should not have had that fear of death when I wished for it all the same. The unhappiness that I need and long for is different. It is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and lust after death. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.
- Hermann Hesse

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Plato

The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.
- P C Cast

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.
- Michael Baden

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Men after death are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse then you don't have life after death; you just have death.
- Iain Banks

In my despair I remember
that there is life after death;
there is life after death
and I have no problem.
But I ask:
Oh my God,
is there life before death?
- Mourid Barghouti

In a letter, Martin Luther, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, wrote to Hans von Rechenberg in 1522 about the possibility that people could turn to God after death, asking: Who would doubt God's ability to do that?
- Rob Bell

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.
- Elizabeth Berg

Who would fardels bear,
To groan and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus, conscience does make cowards of us all;
- William Shakespeare

But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
- William Shakespeare

That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can promise himself; and if men had power thus to avenge themselves the earth would be peopled with phantoms. ("Eveline's Visitant")
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.
- Ann Brashares

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein

What can be feared when one is doing one's duty? I know the rage of my enemies. I know all their slanders; but when one only tries to do good to men and when one does not offend heaven, one can fear nothing, neither during life nor after death.
- Voltaire

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
- Taylor Caldwell

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
- Johnny Carson

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
- Johnny Carson

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
- Deepak Chopra

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
- Colley Cibber

For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.
- Shane Claiborne

When death comes you do not stay for one minute in the place it has visited. Many things arrive after death-sadness, questions, and policemen- and none of these can be answered when your papers are not in order.
- Chris Cleave

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
- Kurt Cobain

He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir.
Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile.
- Of course, of course - he said. - You have to believe that, I appreciate. Otherwise you'd go quite mad. Otherwise you'd think you're standing on a feather-thin bridge over the vaults of Hell. Otherwise existence would be a dark agony and the only hope would be that there is no life after death. I quite understand.
- Terry Pratchett

The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.
- Terry Pratchett

There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?
- Robert A Heinlein

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Socrates

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
- Charles Dickens

The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,--
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity
- Emily Dickinson

The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man's true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep's Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.
- Franz Kafka

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.
- E L Doctorow

don't worry - so what if there is no life after death? There is life after Garp, believe me.
- John Irving

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.
- Mike Fitzpatrick

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
- Carl Sagan

Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its future birth. Thus if one wants to attain god after death, one has to think of him steadfastly... This is not as simple as it sounds, for at the time of death the mind automatically flies to the thought of an object (i.e. money, love) which has possessed it during its sojourn in the world. Thus one must think of god constantly.
- Stephen Mitchell

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
- Andrew Greeley

I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.
- Sylvia Plath

Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery; I will read him again, and he will talk to me, not being dead, or gone. Is that life after death mind living on paper and flesh living in offspring? Maybe. I do not know.
- Sylvia Plath

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
- Stanislav Grof

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
- Stanislav Grof

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
- Stanislav Grof

Anyway, the sickness kick-starts the brain, reanimates the body after death. I could go into more detail,but you know, we have these great visual aids out here, which would really help me out..."
"Nice try."
I heard him chuckle. I willed myself not to like the sound.
And I undid one of the locks.
- Lia Habel

Ready to meet my best friend, then?"
I clipped my vest together in front and smiled tightly. "Should I bring a bottle of wine? Any taboo topics? Politics, life after death?"
"Yeah, just stay away from that one entirely.
- Lia Habel

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.
- Jupiter Hammon

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
- Bret Harte

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.
- J D Hayworth

Death was the greatest villain, no matter how it got you; it always had the same outcome. It chewed you up and spit you out. It went on a war path, destroying everything. No one was ever happy after death came around. there was always sadness and pain. Death was the most selfish and heartbreaking vulture. Death disgusted me.
- Holly Hood

Day by day his sister grew
Paler with the wound
She could not see or touch or feel, as I dressed it
Each day with her blue Breton jacket.
- from Life After Death
- Ted Hughes

So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
- Victoria Jackson

The spirit is tied to the brainfor the brain makes us who we are. So if our spirit lives after death, so too does our intelligence and personality.
- Jarod Kintz

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
- Paul Kurtz

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
- Hedy Lamarr

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
- Jessica Lange

I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.
- C S Lewis

You painted all those characters into the paintings all over the school, and every one of them is a portrait of you, but in disguise. That's how you've been watching us. You spread yourself out through all those paintings. And since you are the original artist, nobody else can ever destroy the portraits. It was your way of assuring you could always keep an eye on things, even after death.
- G Norman Lippert

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
- Marcus Valerius Martial

(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire is continuation of what they had in life no matter how misguided or degraded... Will those people ever progress, even with our help?
- Richard Matheson

Sydney did not believe in life after death,but in her experience, admitting this could lead to long and complicated discussions in which people seem to think that since she did not believe in God or the afterlife, there was nothing to stop her from becoming an ax murderer.
- Maureen F Mchugh

The actuality of us being cognizant and accepting of the fact we are but a speck of sand in a universe sized desert, whose existence is irrelevant to any facet of universal function is a hard pill to swallow. Knowing the world will go on for another billion years after death and you will have no recollection of anything, just as you have no recollection of the billion years before your birth is a mind-boggling intuition,
- Hewitt E Moore

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
- Jeanne Moreau

There was a time in my demented youth
When somehow I suspected that the truth
About survival after death was known
To every human being: I alone
Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy
Of books and people hid the truth from me.
- Vladimir Nabokov

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.
- Russell M Nelson

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.
- Garth Nix

Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.
- Tim O Brien

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.
- David Ortiz

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
- Osho

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.
- Brian Perkins

Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death.
- Henry Reed

The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunger for life after death(on Russian slave laborers.)
- Sophie Scholl

I believe, said Austerlitz, they know they have lost their way, since if you do not put them out again carefully they will stay where they are, never moving, until the last breath is out of their bodies and indeed they will remain in the place where they came to grief even after death, held fast by the tiny claws that stiffened in their last agony, until a draft of air detaches them and blows them into a dusty corner.
- W G Sebald

My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I ever had on Earth. I wish I could say that in that moment in the kitchen she decided to quit drinking, but I now saw that drinking was a part of what made her who she was. If the worst of what she left on Earth was a legacy of inebriated support, it was a good legacy in my book.

- Alice Sebold

It may be that the numinous spirit of the written word does not perish and so, too, bestows life after death.
- Lisa See

... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.
- Diane Setterfield

When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death.
- Kyung Sook Shin

On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.
- Gary Shteyngart

I'm always going to be with you, you know. As long as you remember me, I will exist. Memory is a form of existence, life after death.
- Andrea Speed

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
- Gloria Steinem

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.
- Emanuel Swedenborg

Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more!
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world and a type of being that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there'd be no stories. If there were no stories, there'd be no language. If there was no language there'd be no... What?
- Scarlett Thomas

None of this stuff is really about morality or religion or dogma or big fancy questions of life after death. The capital-T Truth is about life before death.
- David Foster Wallace

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
- Lew Wallace

I try to believe everything I read in the newspapers, but I had difficulty with last week's account of the London vagrant who was found, after death, to be carrying 1,500 in small change in his socks.
My reason for doubting the story is that I, too, like to carry small change in my socks, but I have found that with more that 15 or 20 worth it becomes impossible to walk.
- Auberon Waugh

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is not about "life after death" as such. Rather, it's a way of talking about being bodily alive again after a period of being bodily dead. Resurrection is a second-stage postmortem life: "life after 'life after death.
- N T Wright

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
- Irvin D Yalom