These afterlife quotes will inspire you. Afterlife is an existence after death or a later period in one’s life.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging afterlife quotes, afterlife sayings, and afterlife proverbs.
Famous Afterlife Quotes
- “Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon, and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.” ~ Rossiter W. Raymond
- “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” ~ Will Rogers
- “There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” ~ Stephen Hawking
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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.” ~ Douglas Adams
- “Of course you don’t die. Nobody dies. Death doesn’t exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.” ~ Henry Miller
- “I trust Jesus with all my tomorrows, knowing that He will solve the mystery of life beyond the grave.” ~ Billy Graham
- “I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.” ~ Isaac Asimov
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“You know what the true definition of hell is? It’s when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.” ~ Frank Mir
- “All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.” ~ Dave Grohl
- “Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, ‘Did you bring joy?’ The second was, ‘Did you find joy?” ~ Leo Buscaglia
- “I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.” ~ Carl Sagan
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“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
- “I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.” ~ Karen Armstrong
- “I’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.” ~ Bonnie Raitt
- “The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.” ~ Peter Stuyvesant
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“We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.” ~ Jerome Cavanagh
- “My children didn’t when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.” ~ Fay Wray
- “I had hoped that he has mouth smell or something other repelling, but nothing! It was even charming.” ~ Michelle Hunziker
- “I wasn’t getting the responses I hoped for. You can’t protect yourself from other judgments.” ~ Charlotte Gainsbourg
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“Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.” ~ Sri Aurobindo
- “Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.” ~ Tim LaHaye
- “I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.” ~ James L. Buckley
- “We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.” ~ Mahmoud Abbas
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“We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.” ~ Cynthia Weil
- “We met with the poet Frank O’Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.” ~ David Amram
- “I don’t have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I’d become. I’m me, and I’m like nobody else.” ~ Lena Horne
- “Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.” ~ William Ames
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“I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.” ~ Maureen O’Hara
- “The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.” ~ Bob Riley
- “No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.” ~ David Jeremiah
- “For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.” ~ Kevin Spacey
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“War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.” ~ James Madison
- “I had hoped God would be neutral.” ~ Darrell Royal
- “I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.” ~ Catherine Deneuve
- “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.” ~ Woody Allen , No afterlife quotes
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“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.” ~ Walter Scott
- “I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” ~ Stephen Hawking
- “There isn’t any (afterlife), you dingbat! This is it, baby! Enjoy, carefully! Religion is such a medieval idea. Don’t get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion and I can’t buy any of it. So God made man in His own image? It’s just the other way around. Man made God in his own image. It’s all about money.” ~ Phyllis Diller
- “We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?” ~ Noel Coward
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“I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.” ~ Julia Sawalha
- “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
- “I don’t believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it’s worthy of note.” ~ Harvey Fierstein
- “One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment’s hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only “some kind of velvety cool blackness,” adding then: “Of course, I admit I may be wrong. It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.”” ~ Winston Churchill
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“Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you will die tomorrow.” ~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
- “Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.” ~ Michael Ignatieff
- “Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn’t matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.” ~ Dan Aykroyd
- “They’ve got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they’re not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn’t, like, pan out the way they had hoped.” ~ Rene Auberjonois
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“When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.” ~ John Bolton
- “I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I’m sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.” ~ Sigourney Weaver
- “I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown.” ~ Hilary Duff
- “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
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“I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I’ve spent enough time in audition rooms. I don’t want to be doing that in my afterlife.” ~ Rachael Taylor
- “I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you, and that leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.” ~ Hugh Hefner
- “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
- “There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.” ~ Paulo Coelho
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“The chief problem about death … is the fear that there may be no afterlife – a depressing thought.” ~ Woody Allen
- “I don’t have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.” ~ Robin Gibb
- “I don’t expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn’t do nothing, but I could have done more.” ~ Sylvia Kristel
- “We don’t really understand most of what’s happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.” ~ David Eagleman
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“My view of the afterlife is that it’s made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.” ~ John Edward
- “I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.” ~ Edvard Munch
- “Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.” ~ Mark Helprin
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“The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling – though not to me.” ~ Richard Dawkins
- “Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man’s need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.” ~ Robert Vaughn
- “Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.” ~ Greg Graffin
