Stephen Fry Quotes

I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all going to die, that is the end of all consciousness. There is no afterlife. There is no God. Now what do we do.' That's the point where it starts getting interesting to me.

God is dead!

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.

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.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

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

I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.

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.

What does an atheist scream when they come?

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

I'm not scared of dying, because I'm an atheist. I won't even know I'm dead. You know why? Because I'll be fùckin' dead.

Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens.

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.