"When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Atheist Quotes #Believe Quotes #Forever Quotes

“You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.”
“I was not prepared to live as a single parent.”
“The picture of me is nearly finished, and I think it is magnificent. Â The green and blue of the dress is splendid, and the expression as Lady Macbeth holds the crown over her head is quite wonderful.”

Source : Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”
“Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.”
“I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way I can keep them from getting to my family. I have to clean up my friends because they are around my boys. It's upsetting.”
“It was never something I had in my mind to do â€“ a show on Nickelodeon, let alone being consider a teen idol. Itâ€™s odd. I remember my mom picking up a magazine with me on the cover and saying, â€˜You donâ€™t know how weird this is for me.â€™ I told her, â€˜You donâ€™t know how weird it is for me!â€™”
“People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that thereâ€™s a cure for this and an exception weâ€™ve made in your own case: an eternal life offered if you make the right propitiations and the right abjections. Well, Iâ€™m sorry. I think that it's the height of immorality to lie to people like that. Thatâ€™s why [religion] survives.”
“There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.”

Source : Dennis Altman (1982). “The Homosexualization of America”, Beacon Press (MA)

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