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 RussellTags: afterlife mortality aetheism
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
PlatoTags: education afterlife culture
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: atheism afterlife humanism secularism
He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven.
Philip PullmanTags: freedom heaven afterlife
All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Tags: afterlife living life-and-death
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
Ludwig WittgensteinTags: philosophy religion afterlife
The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.
Dieter F. UchtdorfTags: afterlife repentance
I don't like Paradise,
As they probably don't have obsessions there.
Tags: heaven afterlife paradise materialism possessions
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
Michael IgnatieffTags: afterlife memory forgetting
You are dead- what am I speaking to?
Philip PullmanTags: afterlife iorek lee-scoresby
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