best quotations about
Afterlife |
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Quotations
 | In the afterlife, we’ll sit around talking about the good old days, when we wished that we were dead. — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 25 likes |
 | After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 13 likes |
 | Only the dead can be resurrected. It’s more difficult with the living. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 10 likes |
| The first condition of immortality is death. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 9 likes |
 | My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 8 likes |
 | Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 8 likes |
 | To die is landing on some distant shore. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 8 likes |
 | Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 7 likes |
| I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 7 likes |
 | Devenir immortel… et puis… mourir. — from the film Breathless (1960) 7 likes |
 | The doctrine of reincarnation is neither absurd nor useless. It is not more surprising to be born twice than once. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 7 likes |
 | None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 6 likes |
 | Someday death will take us to another star. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 5 likes |
 | For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end. — Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921 5 likes |
 | We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we? — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 5 likes |
 | If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything. — William Faulkner, 1897-1962, American writer, Nobel 1949 5 likes |
 | Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 4 likes |
 | The Heavenly City outshines Rome, beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 4 likes |
 | Some are born posthumously. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn’t believe he is dead. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 3 likes |
| - Do you believe in the life to come? - Mine was always that. — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 3 likes |
| One mercifully hopes there are water nymphs in the Styx. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 2 likes |
 | I have always been scandalized by the lightness of men who are passionately worried about what awaits them after death, and who care very little about what happened to them before their birth. |
 | If you stopped tellin’ people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive. |
 | To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life. |
 | Take a good look at me. Now tell me, do you think I'm the sort of fellow who gives a fuck what happens once he's dead? |
 | The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard – Christ is risen! |
 | The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. |
Funny Quotes
 | I don't believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 2 likes |
| Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant. |
Ancient Greek
 | The souls in the underworld smell. Αι ψυχαί οσμώνται καθ΄ Άιδην. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 19 likes |
 | For wealth is useless to the dead. Ως τοις θανούσι πλούτος ουδέν ωφελεί. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Persians 16 likes |
 | What dies does not fall out of the world. Έξω του κόσμου το αποθανόν ου πίπτει. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor 9 likes |
 | He was easy here, will be easy there. Ο δ’ εύκολος μεν ενθάδ’ εύκολος δ’ εκεί. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Frogs (about the deceased Sophocles) 9 likes |
 | Life we know but as we don’t have experience of the death, everybody is afraid to leave the light of this sun. Το ζην γαρ ίσμεν, του θανείν δ’ απειρία πας τις φοβείται φως λιπείν τόδ’ ήλιου. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Phoenix 7 likes |
