Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

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.

We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.

Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

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

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

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.

But you're dead,' said Harry. 'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. 'Then... am I dead too?' 'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.

Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

I actually do believe in life after death.

Death does not exist.

I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you

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

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

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

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.

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

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.

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

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.