Afterlife Quotes

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

Life, Hell, Whole

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

Here, Involved, Realized

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
Paulo Coelho

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Stephen Hawking

Computers, Dark, Afraid

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Life, Live, Tomorrow

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.
Harvey Fierstein

Somebody, Worthy, Passes

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
Richard Dawkins

Idea, Loved, Though

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?
Noel Coward

Less, Guarantee, Reliable

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

God, Argument, Evidence

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.
Maurice Sendak

Again, Brother, Expect

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

Men, Long, Nothing

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
Jarvis Cocker

Makes, Banking, Palatable

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

Movies, Tv, Video

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
Karen Armstrong

Religion, Ego, Losing

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

Life, Subject, Happier

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

Friends, Find, Here

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.
Robin Gibb

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

Eyes, Before, Risk

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

Life, Children, Learned

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

Nothing, Down, Hell

I'd like to see a ghost. It would confirm there's an afterlife.
Marlon Wayans

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

Great, Human, Understand

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

Life, God, Death

The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Live, Envy, Why

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
Beatrice Wood

My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.
John Edward

Life, Live, Spiritual

I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.
Rachael Taylor

Time, Trying, Enough

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
David Eagleman

Understand, Knows, Happening

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 Bashir

Same, Leader, State

I don't believe in an afterlife.
Antony Sher

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