Michel Onfray Quotes

The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

I don't see here on this side; but I will see on the other side. I know I'll get to see. I know I'll get to walk those golden streets and I'll get to see Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; and I'll get to see the Lord. Oh yes I will.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.