Richard Dawkins Quotes

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

I am not afraid to die. I simply do not want to.

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

I'm not scared of dying, because I'm an atheist. I won't even know I'm dead. You know why? Because I'll be fùckin' dead.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

Death is Life's high meed.

Where do you go when you die? The same place you were before you were born; nowhere! It's over!

When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the waters dissolve it and scatter it to the four corners of the earth. In the end, what we care most for only lasts a brief lifetime, and then there is eternity. Time forever. Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Time always. The body becomes dust and trees and exploding fire, it becomes gaseous and disappears, and still there is eternity. Silent, unopposed, brooding, forever.

Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.

After death there is nothing.

There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Death doesn't frighten me, it bothers me. It bothers me for example that someone can be there tomorrow but me I am no longer there. What bothers me is no longer being alive, not being dead.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.