All thinking men are atheists. — Ernest Hemingway
The dew of compassion is a tear. — Lord Byron
A well-spent day brings happy sleep. — Leonardo da Vinci
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. — Nolan Bushnell
Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped. — Groucho Marx
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. — Robert “Tree” Cody
If a tree dies, plant another in its place. — Carl Linnaeus
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. — Herodotus
So wise so young, they say, do never live long. — William Shakespeare
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact. — Elon Musk
I’d rather die on my feet, than live on my knees. — Emiliano Zapata
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. — Julius Caesar
If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease! — Clark Adams
No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave. — Mark Twain
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. — Steve Jobs
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. — Steven Weinberg
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. — Sam Levenson
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. — Epicurus
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. — Plato
Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery. — Khalil Gibran
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. — Mae West
There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure. — Jack E. Leonard
Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. — Jon Stewart
When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. — Henry David Thoreau
Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. — Woody Allen
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. — William James
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. — Mark Twain
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. — Isaac Asimov
Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five. — Benjamin Franklin
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. — Will Rogers
Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive. — Brian Clough
I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear. — Woody Allen
We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift. — Yul Brynner
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. — George Carlin
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. — Cyril Connolly
If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age. — George Burns
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. — William Shakespeare
Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. — Jaroslav Pelikan
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. — Woody Allen
“The grave itself is but a covered bridge,
Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. — Richard Francis Burton
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. — Epicurus
To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner. — Janet Morris
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. — Joan Baez
It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. — Mark Twain
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. — Sigmund Freud
The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. — Mark Twain
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. — Epicurus
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. — Carl Sagan
“Green be the turf above thee,
Friend of my better days!
None knew thee but to love thee,
Nor named thee but to praise.” — Fitz-Greene Halleck
Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever! — Walter Scott
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. — Gautama Buddha
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I’m going to miss mine by just a few days. — Garrison Keillor
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. — Susan B. Anthony
You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep seated need to believe — Carl Sagan
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car. — Will Rogers
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. — Steve Jobs
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have nothing else to do but die. — Vavasor Powell
There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin. — Leonard Ravenhill
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. — Abraham Lincoln
“A man’s life breath cannot come back again–
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man’s clenched teeth.” — Homer
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. — Rumi
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence — Bertrand Russell
Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death. — Chester Himes
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. — Gene Roddenberry
“What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we
should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?” — Charles Lindbergh
When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. — Mark Twain
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal. — John F. Kennedy
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical. — Giorgio Armani
“One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.” — W. H. Auden
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. — Thomas Jefferson
May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is. — E. Howard Hunt
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. — Bertrand Russell
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. — Albert Einstein
The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. — Robert Green Ingersoll
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. — Emo Philips
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
That’s all that death is … Just a going away into another country … Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence. — Annie Fellows Johnston
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain’s beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams. — Cheng Man-ch’ing
Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive. — Bob Dylan
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. — J. R. R. Tolkien
A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life’s end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom. — Aeschylus
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose – which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me. — Richard P. Feynman
It is very singular how the fact of a man’s death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. — Arthur C. Clarke
As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience. — David Platt
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. — Pope Paul VI
Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity. — Nelson Mandela
A man’s ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. — Albert Einstein
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. — Tecumseh
The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and brittle. The life everlasting is independent of any form but manifests itself in all forms. Life then does not die… but the forms are dissolved. — Sri Aurobindo
You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men were sentenced to death because they believed in a better future; because they had not lost their faith in the ultimate victory of liberty and justice! — August Spies
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it’s because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That’s the source of everything. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull ring, and they make it face a man. Death – a fighting bull with horns as weapons – is killed by a bullfighter. And the people are there watching death being cheated of its right. — Maia Wojciechowska
We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face–so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whenever you find a preacher who takes the Bible allegorically and figuratively…that preacher is preaching an allegorical gospel which is no gospel. I thank God for a literal Christ, for a literal salvation. There is literal sorrow, literal death, literal Hell, and, thank God, there is a literal Heaven. — J. Frank Norris
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. — Steve Jobs
When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you’re going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life… It’s a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself. — Patrick Swayze
Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer’s soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love. — Stephen Charnock
The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language. — Jeremy Collier
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me…. And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. — Walt Whitman
Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man’s knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, ‘The individual withers and the world is more and more.’ Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal. — Willis R. Whitney
A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift. By focusing on springtime and summer, we have turned the natural process of life into a process of loss rather than a process of celebration and appreciation. Life is neither linear nor stagnant. It is movement from mystery to mystery. Just as a year includes autumn and winter, life includes death, not as an opposite but as an integral part of the way life is made. — Rachel Naomi Remen
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere… Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. — Albert Einstein
Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless. — Paul Bowles
It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim eye is brightening with its last light. It is not strange that the freshest fountains the heart has ever known in its wastes should bubble up anew when the lifeblood is growing stagnant. It is not strange that a bright memory should come to a dying old man, as the sunshine breaks across the hills at the close of a stormy day; nor that in the light of that ray, the very clouds that made the day dark should grow gloriously beautiful. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another. — Marquis de Sade
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms – this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men. — Albert Einstein
We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be possible to live ethically-with a genuine concern for the happiness of other sentient beings-without presuming to know things about which we are patently ignorant. Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person you will pass in the street today, is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime? — Sam Harris
