Life is a dream walking. Death is going home.
– Chinese Proverb
We only part to meet again.
Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
– Mother Teresa
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
– Seneca
Death is a tool of transfer, from temporary life to eternal which has no end.
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, That, we still are.
– Henry Scott Holland
Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.
I know you are not far away. I feel your presence around me. Our love binds us together always. We two, are one, eternally.
It is very beautiful over there!
– Thomas Edison (These words were reported as being spoken by Edison’s by his physician days before he died as he awoke from a nap and gazed upward.)
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.
– Elizabeth Kuble
Death-the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
– Walter Scott
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
– William Penn
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
– Stephen Hawking
Death is not extinguishing the light,it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
– Rabindranath Tagore
It is worth dying to find out what life is.
– T.S. Eliot
Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
– Kahlil Gibran
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
– John Dryden
Death only is not the end. There is life after.
Life after death is not about forgetting the past, but about finding peace and closure in it.
For in the sleep of death, what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause.
– William Shakespeare
Of course you don’t die. Nobody dies. Death does not exist. you only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.
– Henry Miller
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
– Henry David Thoreau
And with the morn those angel faces smile, which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
– John Henry Newman
Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.
– Charles Frohman
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is the greatest illusion of all.
– Osho
The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
The real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.
– Ali ibn Abi Talib
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
– Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car and into another.
– John Lennon
Those who die, go no further from us than God…And God is very near
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
– John Taylor
I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.
– Wayne Dyer
All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.”
There should be no fear of death, for the death of the body is but a gentle passing to a much freer life.
– Helen Breaves
Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.
– Socrates
Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there. I do not die.
– Mary Elizabeth Frye
When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. When you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
– Buddhist saying
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
– David Searls
Life after death is not about physical existence, but about the eternal nature of the soul.
Death is only a level crossing from one life to another, from life in its beginnings to life in full achievements. From this incomplete life to that transformed one.
– Raoul Plus
At some point, one’s devious path can be straightened by one’s thought of the afterlife.
To be in Hell is to drift: to be in Heaven is to steer.
– George Bernard Shaw
The afterlife is not the end, but a new beginning, a continuation of the journey of the soul to discover its true purpose.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
– Desmond Tutu
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
– Helen Keller
You live on earth for only a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit.
– White Eagle
Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man’s need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.
– Robert Vaughn
The belief in an afterlife is not a crutch, but a source of comfort and hope in the face of loss and grief.
All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
– William Shakespeare
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
– Stephen Hawking
The concept of an afterlife is not a way to escape death, but a way to come to terms with it and find meaning.
I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death,this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are in eternity now.
– Normal Vincent Peale
They who believe and do righteous deeds- those are the companions of Paradise; they will abide therein eternally.
– Quran
O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.
– Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
The only ‘afterlife’ is what other people remember of you.
– Craig Venter
A rose will still be a rose in heaven, but it’ll smell ten times sweeter.
– Meg Woodson
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
– Voltaire
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
– James Matthew Barrie
I don’t know anything about the afterlife because I haven’t been there yet.
– Marina Abrahmovic
The chief problem about death … is the fear that there may be no afterlife – a depressing thought.
– Woody Allen
What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.
– Carl Jung
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
– Benjamin Franklin
The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The afterlife is not something to be feared, but something to be embraced as a natural part of life’s cycle.
That’s what Heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.
– Mitch Albom
The belief in an afterlife is not a matter of faith, but a matter of the human heart and the desire for something more.
For all we know, the veil that separates life and death is lifted in the last moments of life, and those who are dying may be more in touch with that world than with ours.
– David Kessler
I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.
– Julia Sawalha
If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.
– Chuck Palahniuk
We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?
– Noel Coward
Perhaps they are not stars but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones shines down to let us know they are happy.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting. And cometh from afar.
– William Wordsworth
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Of course there are people who think of ‘heaven’ as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that’s a problem as old as the human race.
– N. T. Wright
I think if there is a God, it’s very important that he has a sense of humour – otherwise, you are in for a very miserable afterlife.
– Rory Bremner
After considering the strength of the evidence, I am absolutely convinced that an afterlife exists.
– Jeffrey Long
Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord.
– The Bible
Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change in form.
– Swami Satchidananda
Live so that thou mayest desire to live again – that is thy duty – for in any case thou wilt live again!
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
– Helen Hayes
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.
– Isaac Asimov
The grave was never intended for the spirit-only for the body.
– Betty J. Eadie
I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I’m not banking on it.
– Jarvis Cocker
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.
– Jelaluddin Rumi
There is no “next” after you are dead and gone from your own world.
– Rabindranath Tagore
The afterlife is not a place of judgment, but a place of understanding and reconciliation.
Anyone who craves an afterlife has not lived their life to the fullest.
– Robert Black
I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.
– Saoirse Ronan
Religion has convinced us that there’s something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There’s concerns about what God wants, there’s concerns about what’s going to happen in the afterlife.
– Sam Harris
I’d like to see a ghost. It would confirm there’s an afterlife.
– Marlon Wayans
The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling – though not to me.
– Richard Dawkins
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven’s wonders.
– Louis D. Brandeis
Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.
– Christopher Hitchens
God has not taken them from us. He has hidden them in his heart, that they may be closer to ours.
The afterlife is not a concept unique to any one religion or culture, it’s an universal human experience.