Belief in the afterlife Quotes

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

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

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she exhaled, and then she had no more needs, no more reason; she was released from her body, and being released, she continued her journey elsewhere, high in the firmament where soul material gathers and plays out all the dreams and joys of which we temporal beings can barely conceive, all the things that are beyond our comprehension, but even so, are not beyond our attainment if we choose to attain them, and believe that we truly can.

Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.

There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.