William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
Afterlife quotes
Afterlife
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Khalil
Poet, Novelist
"Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There’s nowhere to go. There’s nothing else to be. There’s no destination. It’s not something to aim for in the afterlife. It’s simply the quality of this moment."
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
William Wordsworth
Poet
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar."
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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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"I keep wondering if there is an afterlife, and if there is will they be able to break a twenty?"
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"Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown nodded. "I think this is it."
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"Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east."
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"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell."
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"Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person."
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"And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed."
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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."
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"People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters."
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"They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism."
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"The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down."
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"Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again."
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"In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory."
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"There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this."
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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."
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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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"Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife."
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"In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do."
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"For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things."
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"We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home."
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