God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The last slide is Main Street at night, with the castle lit silver blue in the background. In the sky, fireworks are… — Michael Zadoorian Copy Share Image
There are a lot of ways to talk about the life of a photograph. You can talk about the afterlife of a… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the… — John Smith Copy Share Image
“Good morning.” His lips quirked. “I nearly expired from old age, waiting to see if you would actually knock on the damn… — Anne Mallory Copy Share Image
“Do you really suppose God cares whether a man comes to good or ill?" "If He did not, He could not be… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I thought about her… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It must not be thought, however, that in pagan Ireland Fairyland was altogether conceived as a Hades or place of the dead.… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
“Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
There isn't any (afterlife), you dingbat! This is it, baby! Enjoy, carefully! Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started.… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“I make a joke of it, but... but I'm afraid of death." He straightened up and turned to look into Joseph's eyes.… — Gilbert Morris Copy Share Image
Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny scientific evidence… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“But there’s a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe’a al-Adiwiyah, a great… — John Green Copy Share Image
I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
“Most people would probably call me a ghost. I am, after all, dead. But I don't think of myself that way. It… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
“Dragons and Afterlife .. I don't see any difference between both of them, we didn't see neither the dragons nor afterlife, we… — Sherif Gaber Copy Share Image
“I don’t kill people in large numbers like you did. People that never raised a hand at you,” I said, full of… — Salina Christmas Copy Share Image
A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Be patient, child!” said the Music. “But she will forget me.” “Do not worry, child. I am there. I shall not forget.”And… — David Paul Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“It would be incorrect in every sense to say that so near the end of his life he had lost his faith,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“When we were alive, they told us that when we died we'd go to heaven. And they said that heaven was a… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“You want to know what death is! I’ll tell you what it is—death is the living forgetting you! What you smell like… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“It knows you.Every soul is connected to it in the same way-nobody is closer farther.Doesn't matter what your beliefs were in that… — Sheri Meshal Copy Share Image
“Animals are not supposed to have the power to reason and therefore don't care whether there is life after death. But imagine… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“When we killed – or exiled – God, we also killed ourselves. Did we notice that sufficiently at the time? No God,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“This concept of the afterlife really functions as a substitute for wisdom. It functions as a substitute for really absorbing our predicament,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“I have kept thee long in waiting, dear Romuald, and thou mayst well have thought that I had forgotten thee. But I… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
“Oh, how crafty of religion, I cried out indignantly, to transplant rewards and punishments into a future life in order to comfort… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I believe there's more than this - that maybe when we die our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
“I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers—where you just repeat what you’ve already said with phrases like In summation, and To… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And in front of it all are the pearly gates: the proverbial entrance to Heaven that she, in earthly life, thought might… — Victoria Kahler Copy Share Image
It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty,… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
