I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. . . or maybe even a pessimist.
Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what won the Academy Award for best picture, and then you can remember the one that didn't. And then sometimes in the afterlife, films that were not successful at all become these giant successes.
I'm going to dance in all the galaxies.
My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.
I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
In the afterlife you don't have to worry about looking for work.
Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition of Bladerunner, with the nostalgia of New Orleans. With crisp and beautiful prose, AFTERLIFE blurs the line between the living and the dead to ask life's ultimate questions-even if they take nine lives to solve.
We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?
[Søren ] Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, `You can't really think yourself into a faith, into a religion. It's something you have to make a leap into faith. ' And I've never been able to do that. I wish I could. Then maybe I could believe in an afterlife.
My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
I keep wondering if there is an afterlife, and if there is will they be able to break a twenty?
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.
My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.
I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.
I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.
All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority for a long time to come, especially among experiencers, but for me the evidence and the arguments are overwhelming. . . We are biological organisms, evolved in fascinating ways for no purpose at all and with no end in mind. We are simply here and this is how it is. I have no self and "I" own nothing. There is no one to die. There is just this moment, and now this, and now this.
What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.