Hereafter Quotes

“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“No desolation equal to that of the pagan, suddenly bereft. For to the pagan, there is no hereafter.”
― Cornell Woolrich, Waltz into Darkness

“Life is glorious, and death isn’t so bad either.”
― Kevin Ansbro, The Angel in my Well

“On the morning of what should have been Amelia Ashley's birthday, the river valley that had once housed High Bridge changed for Joshua Mayhew. For the first time in many years, it seemed beautiful to him. For the first time in many years, it was beautiful.”
― Tara Hudson, Elegy

“Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Religious fundamentalist haters and terrorists are not just saying that those who disagree with them shall give account to their God for our lives in the hereafter - but they are saying tat we shall also first give account to THEM.”
― Christina Engela, For Love of Leelah

“Isn’t this a nice clean place? Loo! What d’you like best in all the world?”
The answer came almost inaudibly from the white puckered lips: “Pictures.”
“That exactly what you’re going to have, every day — twice a day. Think of that. Shut your eyes and have a nice sleep, and when you wake the pictures will begin. Shut your eyes! And I’ll tell you a story. Nothing’s going to happen to you. See! I’m here.”
He thought she had closed her eyes, but pain gripped her suddenly again; she began whimpering and then screamed.
“God!” murmured Hilary. “Another touch, doctor, quick!”
The doctor injected morphia.
“Leave us alone again.”
The doctor slipped away, and the child’s eyes came slowly back to Hilary’s smile. He laid his fingers on her small emaciated hand.
“Now, Loo, listen!  
“‘The Walrus and the Carpenter were walking hand in hand,
They wept like anything to see such quantities of sand.
“If seven maids with seven brooms could sweep for half a year, Do you suppose,” the Walrus said, “that they could get it clear?”
“I doubt it,” said the Carpenter, and shed a bitter tear!’”  
On and on went Hilary, reciting ‘The Mad Hatter’s Tea-party.’ And, while he murmured, the child’s eyes closed, the small hand lost warmth.
He felt its cold penetrating his own hand and thought: ‘Now, God, if you are — give her pictures!”
― John Galsworthy, Flowering Wilderness

“The dead are omniabsent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Greed will follow you to the grave and beyond.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“But forever was a useless term, relevant only for the dead.”
― K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways

“Memories are aches; they are the laughter
Smiles of time flee to seize the hereafter”
― Munia Khan

“All preachers speak confidently about life after death as if they once died, even though almost all of them have never even fainted.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“but if you’re righteous,
you shall be granted
w/faces radiant like hidden pearls
succulent fruit for you,
gushing water
&wine to indulge therein
high couches reclining
presidents alongside peasants”
― Xayaat Muhummed, The Breast Mountains Of All Time Are In Hargeisa

“We​ do​n't​ move​ on.​ We​ just​ are.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“In the absence of death, there must only be life.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“A mumin will never be satisfied with worldly happiness until he hears he reached paradise”
― Atef Ashab Uddin Sahil

“What's death to a universe so full of life?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“There is no time between lives.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“We do DNA sequencing to work out family ties. If we are to understand past lives and reincarnation then we must also map brain activity. This would need to be done using a set of standard tests which would include current affairs and musical stimuli from certain eras. I believe that music would be the best bet because it would use a familiar brain pattern. If you use both then we have a way to either confirm reincarnation and/or time between life, death and life again. The DNA would help narrow the search, but as we all know hereditary factors are bias towards family members. Thoughts, however are energy and they may still be embedded in the brain to some degrees. This is why children can remember things that they don't even know.
The downside is that we would need to DNA sequence everyone and also give them a brain scan to collate results. A big task and the question would be how big a sample would we need to make it viable? And would mankind be ready to believe in something that they would be willing to debunk quite easily?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Footprints of carbon are in the trees all around us.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The trees are full of life, both living and deceased.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Have you ever wondered where cremation fits into the carbon cycle?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Death is not life's cul-de-sac. It is an extension of that road once travelled. Though you must go one way and I another, we can and will reunite and resume our journey together.”
― Stewart Stafford

“…[Magfirat]-The best tribute, I could ask for my
parents.
For the unparalleled efforts, for my better education.
And their way of simple and pious life.”
― Farooq A. Shiekh

“Islam tends its adherents down the garden path to plentiful paradise.”
― BS Murthy