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Dying Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.
- There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.
- ...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the…
- I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
- Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
- When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
More Dying Quotes
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius
- The act of dying is one of the acts of life. — Marcus Aurelius
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. — Brigitte Bardot
- All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. — Richard Barnfield
- I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. — Richard Baxter