Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.

I believe in life after death.

I actually do believe in life after death.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.

The quality of debate is pretty high—and it is, I think, good evidence of life after death.

Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category?

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.