Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

Everything that gets born dies.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.