As for an afterlife, there has been a general decline in the general acceptance of it as a certainty, and though a few rationalists may be pleased, to many people this has added a new terror to death. We are reluctant, in the main, to consider the disappearance of ourselves and consequently all we feel and know. Every man's death is, literally, the end of a world if he dies without hope. We have exchanged Gone Elsewhere for Gone Nowhere.


A Voice from the Attic (1960)

Robertson Davies Quotes

As for an afterlife, there has been a general decline in the general acceptance of it as a certainty, and though a few rationalists may be pleased,...

As for an afterlife, there has been a general decline in the general acceptance of it as a certainty, and though a few rationalists may be pleased,...

As for an afterlife, there has been a general decline in the general acceptance of it as a certainty, and though a few rationalists may be pleased,...

As for an afterlife, there has been a general decline in the general acceptance of it as a certainty, and though a few rationalists may be pleased,...