Afterlife Quote by John Updike

In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we…

— John Updike

Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for…

— William Mountford

“Consider the fact that we care deeply about what happens to the world after we die. If self-interests were the primary source of meaning…

— Atul Gawande

“Once we’ve concluded that this earthly life of ours is a gift of divine mercy—and grateful recollection of this is our obligation—then we rightly…

— John Calvin

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties…

— Isaiah Berlin

When we ask for heaven, we are asking for stasis. A form of comfort that will last for eternity. Yes, that is what we…

— Ruben Papian

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser,…

— Susan Jacoby

For me, to say I want to go to sleep and retire and prepare for my afterlife, I think that is very selfish.

— Mahathir Mohamad

Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live.

— Anonymous

“It's an insidious idea, this notion that there is life after death. The promise of a reward in the afterlife has been used as…

— Alom Shaha

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors…

— Timothy Keller

“This concept of the afterlife really functions as a substitute for wisdom. It functions as a substitute for really absorbing our predicament, which is…

— Sam Harris