Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

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

I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

The religious man, the mystic, tries to explore the mystery of death. In exploring the mystery of death, he inevitably comes to know what life is, what love is. Those are not his goals. His goal is to penetrate death, because there seems to be nothing more mysterious than death. Love has some mystery because of death, and life also has some mystery because of death.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

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.

Everybody wants to go to heaven. They just don't want God to be there when they get there.

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

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

And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere. I also can't believe that people like Stalin and Hitler are gonna go to the same place as Mother Teresa.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.

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

I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

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.