Afterlife quotations

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◆ Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

- Kurt Vonnegut99

◆ When I was ten all I knew was that I hated the weird words used to describe whatever it was that was wrong with my brother—to this day I think it all happened because he was overtaken by evil spirits that got loose in that haunted house ride at the carnival that summer. It's easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And yet, those evil spirits that were unleashed—be they fake entities from a stupid carnival ride, or cruel malevolencies from dark spiritual chasms of our universe—have stayed with me all these years

- Tim Cummings98

◆ Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

- Tom Stoppard98

◆ I quickly, swiftly, reach in, pluck out, and peer into the mirror. 'I am still here.' I am in the glass, in this moment. After this moment, I may not be here; I may be a person who does not know where she is, or why. I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array of faces I could wear rather than dresses, I would know which face to put on today. As for the dresses, I haven't a clue.

- Tim Cummings98

◆ Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored...

- Sarah Kernochan98

◆ Hell is the impossibility of reason.

- Oliver Stone98

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

- Curtis Mayfield98

◆ Eternity was a restless bitch.

- Michael L. Martin Jr.98

◆ To Hell we have already been.

- Michael L. Martin Jr.98

◆ That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out.

- Vladimir Nabokov98

◆ When it all comes to an end, please let it be the very end.

- the Farce98

◆ I have kept thee long in waiting, dear Romuald, and thou mayst well have thought that I had forgotten thee. But I have come from a long distance and from a place from which no one has ever before returned; there is neither moon nor sun in the country from which I come; there is naught but space and shadow; neither road nor path; no ground for the foot, no air for the wing; and yet here I am, for love is stronger than death, and it will end by vanquishing it. Ah! what gloomy faces and what terrible things I have seen in my journeying! What a world of trouble my soul, returned to this earth by the power of my will, has had in finding its body and reinstating itself therein! What mighty efforts I had to put forth before I could raise the stone with which they had covered me! See! the palms of my poor hands are all blistered from it. Kiss them to make them well, dear love!

- Théophile Gautier98

◆ ...he fed his insides before they fed on him.

- Michael L. Martin Jr.98

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

- Iris Murdoch98

◆ Some would do just about anything for an exodus.

- Michael L. Martin Jr.98