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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

— Karen Armstrong

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Jarvis Cocker

I don't believe in an afterlife.

— Antony Sher

I don't believe in the afterlife.

— W. P. Kinsella

I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years.

— William Golding

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

— Kate Atkinson

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

— Autre Ne Veut

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

— Craig Venter

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

— Isaac Asimov

My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.

— John Edward

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

— David Eagleman