Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we know is this: When we die, one of two things happens. Either our souls and thoughts somehow survive the experience of dying or they don't. If they do, that opens up every possibility you could think of. If they don't, it's just blotto. The end.

I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.

If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another.

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.

Do you know anybody who's come back with a firsthand report on heaven? If you do, let me know. Until then, you'll pardon me if I don't buy it.

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.

She spotted a lone dandelion,and it crossed her mind that a younger Luce would have pounced on it and then made a wish and blown. But this Luce's wishes felt too heavy for something so light.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.

When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.

Whatever happens when we die, it would be really weird if it was what we had expected. Even if you were a lifelong Christian believer, it would be kind of weird if there actually were pearly gates.

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

I wish we had all been born birds instead.

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

What ardently we wish, we soon believe.

A wish is a desire without energy

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.

You should never wish for wishful thinking.

The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.