Afterlife Quote by Kate Atkinson

When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he…

— Laura Hillenbrand

He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more…

— Anonymous

I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and…

— Laura Dave

There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some…

— Henry B. Eyring

All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting…

— John Irving

At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself,…

— Leo Tolstoy

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

— James Joyce

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

— Irving Stone

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

— Albert Camus

In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate…

— Ian Mcewan