Richard Dawkins Quotes

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.

. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?

When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

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.

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

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

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

Corporeal death is not the whole story.