Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

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.

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

I believe in life after death.

I actually do believe in life after death.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

I would hate to be immortal forever.

It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

I don't believe in the afterlife.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

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

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

I am conscious of eternal life.

I do not believe in my death.