#afterlife

Inasmuch as often in this life greater rewards are offered for vice than for virtue, few people would prefer the right to the useful, were they restreined neither by the fear of God nor the expectation of another life ... ↗

— René Descartes

#god #morality #vice #virtue #life

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#mortality #death

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#afterlife #mortality #life

You are dead- what am I speaking to? ↗

— Philip Pullman

#iorek #lee-scoresby #afterlife

The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#flaws #afterlife

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#hell #afterlife

Is this what it means to die? Lucas thought. Because I’m not scared of it anymore. Not if it means I finally get this close to you. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#afterlife

Vic bears you no ill will. He is outside drinking the Dew of the Mountain and will be glad to see you yourself again" Ranulf said to Lucas. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#ranulf #afterlife

Reincarnation?” He shrugged. “I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#afterlife

If there's hell below, we're all gonna go. ↗

— Curtis Mayfield

#hell #justice #afterlife