Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

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

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.

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

I do believe in hell. Jesus spoke more about hell than heaven - I trust him as the authority, not you, me or anybody else. If hell is not real, then Jesus was a liar and God has a lot of explaining to do on His justice and things like that.

I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

There is no Hell when you die so don't look so worried

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken

Jews, Christians, and Muslims all profess belief in immortality, but the veneration paid to the first century of life is proof that they truly believe only in those hundred years, for they destine all the rest, throughout eternity, to rewarding or punishing what one did when alive.

I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

The road to Hades is the easiest to travel.

I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

So eager for eternal damnation.

This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!

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.

Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.