Quotes About Death

Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.

At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my father died; my response to his death was atheistic.

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

Islam is more than a religion, it's much more than a religion, it's a way of life, it is a one party political system that has a very elaborate legal system that can put you to death if you leave it.

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.

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death.

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

To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

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

I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.