#afterlife

"The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died."

"But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on"concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."

"Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all."

"I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it."(...)What do you think, Connor?"asks Hayden. "What hap­pens to your soul when you get unwound?"Who says I even got one?"For the sake of argument, let's say you do."Who says I want an argument?"

"Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise."

"The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves."

"No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku?"

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."

"Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us."

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'."

"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."

"If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does."

"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."

"After your death, you will be what you were before your birth."

"I drink coffee like steam is the ghost of dead water. Ever tried inhaling the afterlife?"

"And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be."

"All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought."