When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

- John Bolton

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

- Richard Dawkins

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

- Paulo Coelho

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

- Noel Coward

I'd like to see a ghost. It would confirm there's an afterlife.

- Marlon Wayans

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

- Morrissey

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

- Marina Abramovic

People are very appreciative, and I'm always thrilled at how long the 'Morse' films have lasted. They seem to have an afterlife that goes on and on for decades, which is touching.

- Kevin Whately

I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.

- Julia Sawalha

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

- Jarvis Cocker

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

- Abu Bakar Bashir

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.

- Isaac Asimov

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

- Harvey Fierstein

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

- Frank McCourt

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

- David Eagleman

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

- Douglas Adams

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

- Craig Venter

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

- Beatrice Wood

I don't believe in an afterlife.

- Antony Sher

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.

- Autre Ne Veut