A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness…

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the…

— William Blake

After death there is nothing.

— Seneca the Younger

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

— Johnny Carson

Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield…

— Empress Dowager Cixi

You're a religious man, ... You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and…

— Simon Wiesenthal

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must…

— Albert Pike

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is for all men that come into the world once to die; and after death the judgment! And since death is a debt…

— Richard Rumbold

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

— Paracelsus

(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they…

— Richard Matheson

I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love…

— Elizabeth Berg

“And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way to heaven.…

— Alice Sebold