Quotes on The Afterlife
For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
We understand living for others and dying for others. The first is easy… it’s a way out of boredom. To make the second popular we had to invent a belief in personal resurrection.
Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946) English actor, producer, author
The dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns.
Hamlet, Hamlet William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife — a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it’s being held.
Woody Allen (b. 1935) American filmmaker
I don’t want to express an opinion. You see, I have friends in both places.
‘Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author on his belief in heaven or hell
Oh, one world at a time!
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American writer
Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and philosopher
All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author
