Tom Stoppard Quotes

The lyrics are a lot about those big questions: why are we here, how did we get here, what's the point, and what's next. When those questions come up with fans, I would absolutely share with them what has helped me and where I stand on what it is that I believe.

Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart

I don't think any of us really knows why we're here. But I think we're supposed to believe we're here for a purpose.

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

Who does understand life?

I wouldn't say I'm a religious person, but I am definitely inclined toward asking the big questions.

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment. Not that you've got to believe that Jesus was real, or not to believe in God, but the belief that it isn't just happenstance.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

I do not believe in my death.

I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose.

If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

And if someone doesn’t believe in any afterlife?” I asked. Walt gave me a sad look. “Then that’s what they experience.

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

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.