Susan Blackmore Quotes

We are each free to believe what we want and it is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful.

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

I enjoy every moment because I believe that once we die, that's it. We're not coming back.

I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No amount of preparing can really ready us, in a meaningful way, for the great void that awaits us all.

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

What Im trying to say is that what makes you up, its always been around, and it always will be around. So really the only thing you should worry about is the part you're at right now. Where you got a body and a head and all that bullshit. Just worry about living, dying is the easy part.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.

Now when I die, I shall only be dead.