George Saunders Quotes

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

Most people think that Heaven is a choir, and all you will do is sing.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

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.

I wouldn’t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.

I would go to heaven, if I believed in heaven.

We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

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

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

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.

I believe in life after death.

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.

The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of a future state, there is nothing, except a divine revelation, that can ascertain the existence, and describe the condition of the invisible country which is destined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body.

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.

I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

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.

If life after death really does exist, everyone probably gets what they expect to get, because that's the only thing I can think of that would be fair.

I used to just want so badly to have afterlife insured and make sure I was going to heaven.

To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.