Quote by James Wood

“Without proof of an afterlife, they were intimately aware of their mortality and the limitations of it.”

— Kealan Patrick Burke

“Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope…

— Ron Rash

“For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.”

— H.G. Wells

“There was no heaven here. Eternal life meant waking up as a putrid corpse.”

— Susan Dennard

“The dead were gone and didn't know or care what they left behind.. If the dead still lived on the surface of this earth…

— Tom Clancy

“Once again, without explaining anything, they understood that they must leave. Go away before this world woke up and continued with a life from…

— Andreï Makine

“When you die, you just die. No ghost, no reincarnation, no heaven. People want to believe that their souls live on or whatever, but…

— Leila Sales

“The old world told men merely about to live and to die. Today men think about defeating death and resurrection.”

— Toba Beta

“Earth seemed a place of exile and I dreamt of heaven.”

— John Beevers

“my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else…

— Emily Brontë

“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I…

— John Green

“They come to understand, with awe, the complexity of the compound identity that existed on the Earth. They conclude with a shudder that the…

— David Eagleman