Stephen Hawking Quotes

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

I have always been very wary of what would happen when I die. I feel I would die every day, and that thought sometimes made me more aware that I am alive.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Corporeal death is not the whole story.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'