Afterlife proverbs

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◆ Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let's take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132)

- Stephen Levine98

◆ The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

- Maurice Sendak98

◆ No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku?

- Tamora Pierce98

◆ After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

- Arthur Schopenhauer98

◆ The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

- Dean Koontz98

◆ Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.

- Bruce Chatwin98

◆ You are dead- what am I speaking to?

- Philip Pullman98

◆ The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.

- Claudia Gray98

◆ The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.

- Raquel Cepeda98

◆ ... love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.

- E.A. Bucchianeri98

◆ Sydney did not believe in life after death, but in her experience, admitting this could lead to long and complicated discussions in which people seemed to think that since she did not believe in God or the afterlife, there was nothing to stop her from becoming an ax murderer.

- Maureen F. McHugh98

◆ The conversation progressed, bumper-car style, to a very heated discussion about death and the survival of the soul. It amazes me that we, as a species, can argue so fervently over something that is, when all is said and done, unknowable and unprovable. Nonetheless, we all arrive at conclusions and cleave to our certainties: that there is nothing but the Void; or that we will find ourselves writing an admissions exam at the Pearly Gates.

- Bill Richardson98

◆ And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other again on earth, we will never be sorry for what we did, that we took this stand.

- Diet Eman98

◆ We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

- Rick Riordan98

◆ The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven — and usually the physical comforts they endow it with are naively the kind that can be perceived as we humans perceive — nothing more. No: perhaps I will awake to find myself burning in hell. I think not. I think I will be snuffed out. Black is sleep; black is a fainting spell; and black is death, with no light, no waking.

- Sylvia Plath98