Quotes About Mortality

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.

The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.

When all that's left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we'll know what it means when the last human breath expires.

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

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.

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

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.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

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

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

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.

But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

Whether you lay cold in the ground or warm in an urn the turmoils of life aren't a concern. For some this may be the perfect rhyme except for those you leave behind...

When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone.

I'm half way to Heaven and half way to Hell with each breath I take in this mortal shell.

I mean, whatWhat if no one's watchingWhat if when we're deadWe are just deadI mean, whatWhat if it's just us down hereWhat if God is just an ideaSomeone put in your head

What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

I think our brain is our soul. I don't believe in after-life and much less in a sort of buildings-like heaven, where you meet friends, enemies, relatives.