Afterlife Quote by Art Buchwald

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging.

— Pamela Druckerman

If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have…

— Thomas Merton

“I'm a pretty sad example of what one should do with eternal life. I've never reached any higher level of consciousness, I don't have…

— Gene Doucette

As I sit here, Pondering my own Mortality, My weird and wonderful Morality, I see with perfect clarity, The man, I aspired to be.…

— Eric Nickel

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech:…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

— Greg Graffin

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

— Will Carleton

One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults…

— Angela Duckworth

We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a…

— Nhat Hanh