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 - American Scientist 1920-1992

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark.
--Stephen Hawking is a famous English Physicist born in 1942.

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
--Edvard Munch – Norwegian Artist 1863-1944

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 – Irish Author Born 1930

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
--Beatrice Wood – American Artist 1893-1993

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 – Indonesian Activist Born 1938

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
--Louis D. Brandeis – American Judge 1856-1941

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?
--Noel Coward – English Playwright 1899-1973

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.
--Christopher Hitchens – American Author Born 1949

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.
--Robert Vaughn – American Actor Born 1932

I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.
--Stephen Hawking is a famous English Physicist born in 1942.

I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
--Woody Allen is a famous American Director born in 1935.⁶