The Hereafter Quotes

No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter.

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.' 'Station! Station!-- your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.

I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again - -I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter.

What are you going to be like in the Hereafter?-You're going to be like Jesus!

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

Live now; be damn'd hereafter.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.

The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them.

Billy Graham is for the hereafter. I'm for the here and now.

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

What you know not now you will know hereafter.

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist.

Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.

But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.

Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.

The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.

No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.

If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.

Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.

The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.

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.

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

An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.

As per the law of karma, that which is your meat today, this dear beloved animal will make mincemeat of you tomorrow. In another birth.

I have met the devil - he is not!

Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed.

We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

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

But forever was a useless term, relevant only for the dead.

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