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Afterlife Quotes
"There was, no doubt, a confusion of persons in damnation: what Pantheists falsely hoped of Heaven bad men really received in Hell. They were melted down into their Master, as a lead soldier slips down and loses his shape in the ladle over the gas ring."
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"We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?"
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"We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife."
"It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life-if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them."
"If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview."
"I think maybe Hell is a place. But you don't have to stay anywhere forever."
"If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with - while they wait for their death."
"Primitive humans could not comprehend the vastness of infinity and eternity, so as a trick of self-preservation they came up with the perception of survival of the soul after death and its recurring incarnations."
"There is a place called 'heaven' where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet."
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