His soul dropped down from heaven. Thank you, said Lazarus,...
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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
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...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.'
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Nay sure, he's not in hell; he's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. 'A made a finer end, and went...
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die!
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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.
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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.
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'We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.”
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Our blight must be removed from this Earth. What lies beyond is something else again.
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Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump...
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The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
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All know that all the dead in the world about that place are stuck And that should mother seek her son she'd have but little luck...
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The dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns.
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Religion is the most convincing form of afterlife security.
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There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice o...
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.
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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.
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O God, let there be some surprise in heaven for him,...
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... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction between our present...
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