We used to think earthly life was horrible and paradise awaited us when we died. Now we have made earthly life into a paradise and we fear death.
I believe that the physical is the geography of the being.
Business is not the aim of life; it's a game.
In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.
Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats.
Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.
I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.
The world's thy ship and not thy home.
It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.
Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.
And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.
Some people take the view that the universe is simply there, and it runs along - it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe.
Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.
It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.
Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.
Death. It doesn't have to be boring.
Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there be any. Nature simply exists.
Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.
Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
As for me, I'm just passin' through this planet.
People accuse me of going overboard preparing for my first ten million years in eternity; in my opinion, people go overboard in worrying about their last ten on earth.
I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.
