Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

I don't believe in an afterlife.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

I believe in life after death.

I actually do believe in life after death.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.

If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

We used to think earthly life was horrible and paradise awaited us when we died. Now we have made earthly life into a paradise and we fear death.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.