Socrates Quotes

I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

I think everyone, especially after the passing of a loved one, starts to hope that maybe there will be something better on the other side.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.

The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side.

It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.

I don't believe in the afterlife.