Seneca the Younger 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.

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

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

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

I actually do believe in life after death.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

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

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

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.

I believe in life after death.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

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

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.