Afterlife Belief Quotes

A soul might very well exist, but we, as physicists, try to measure and quantify everything. So far, no one has been able to create an experiment to do this for the soul. Efforts have been made to weigh the body after death, but each time we find no evidence of a soul. So a soul may very well exist, but it is not a testable theory.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Even death doesn't worry me, man. When my mother died it was because she finished her time on earth. I know that when I die I'll see her again, so how can I fear death?

I am a spiritual person. I'm a Catholic. I treat my patients, the dead patients, as live patients. I believe there is life after death. And I talk to my patients. I talk to them, not loudly but quietly in my heart when I look at them. Before I do an autopsy, I must have a visual contact with the face.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead

In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.

Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period.

Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone else will be condemned.

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.

We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.

The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

If anyone can show me ... that there is any reason - other than fear - to believe in any version of an afterlife, I'll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.

[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and save your crops. And even Christianity, after all, insures heavily against the flaws in this life by belief in another.

Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?" "And you say there's no afterlife.

Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.