Afterlife Quotes - Page 4

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.

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."

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife

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.

I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

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.

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

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.

Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more - hear more - and know more. All of it cannot die.

I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.

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

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

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

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

Humanism inspires a lot of enthusiasm for everyday life and urges people to be better to one another, to work towards a better future and a common good. If I believed there was an afterlife I would have so much less motive for filling this life with every experience that is offered up to me.

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.

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.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife, sacred dogma or texts, or an absolutist moral creed. Instead, it expresses a philosophical and ethical point of view, and it draws upon the scientific method in formulationg its naturalistic view of the nature.