The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

Is there another life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

Belief in the future life is the appetite of reason.

In our sad condition, our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope to another.

It may be that after this life we shall perish utterly, but if that is our fate, let us so live that annihilation will be unjust.

For years he had been curious about what lay on the other side of flesh and blood.

Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires He has implanted in us.

Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?