#afterlife

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

#against #backdrop #being #being human #complexities

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

— David Eagleman

#any #cosmos #happening #knows #most

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#death #life #religion #death

And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#body #dies #friend #happen #human

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

#afterlife #children #dangers #early #external

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

#afterlife #any #enforce #fails #firmly

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

— Louis D. Brandeis

#apparently #delight #heaven #long #men

While many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as a blessing and gift from God. ↗

— H.W. Charles

#downplaying-this-world #jewish-wealth #money #religion #wealth

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

— Maurice Sendak

#again #believe #brother #expect #fully

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#die #forever #life #live #tomorrow