Henry Norris Russell Quotes

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

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

[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

She died praying that she might die.

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 think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway?

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

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

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

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

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.