"The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite……" — John Updike

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• I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally… — Karen Armstrong
• He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely… — Douglas Adams
• During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem… — John Boehner
• Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders. — Louis D. Brandeis
• Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. — George Carlin
• If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. — Winston Churchill
• I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it. — Jarvis Cocker
• There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this. — Paulo Coelho
• Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that… — William Ames
• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven… — Isaac Asimov
• The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought. — Woody Allen
• I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case. — Woody Allen

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