Yann Martel Quotes

I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.

I actually do believe in life after death.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.

It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that-the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

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.

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.

This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.

Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.

That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

I believe in life after death.