#afterlife

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

Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#afterlife #death #ghost #grief #loss

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #atheist #christianity #death #god

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#believe #happen #i

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

— Jarvis Cocker

#banking #believe #i #like #makes

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

#came #come #come and go #go #i

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

— Stephen Hawking

#afterlife #computers #dark #fairy #heaven

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

#any #argument #evidence #god #more

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#god #heaven #judgement #talent #life

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