Isaac Asimov Quotes

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.

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.

What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

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

We are each free to believe what we want and it is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful.

I'm not scared of death anymore.

I started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without anthropomorphizing it.

To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.

I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

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.

I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life - the only thing I know to exist - to be wasted.

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.

There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of the gods creating the cosmos, the cosmos, in the individualized form of human beings giving rein to their imagination, created the gods.

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.