“You can either believe, accept and live forever in blissful eternity; or disbelieve, deny and live forever in torment and despair. This is the divine thumb that the fundamentalist live under, and it is their fear of their God that not only keeps them in line, but also serves as the motivation for their insistence that they keep others in line as well.”
“If you believe that goodness lives on forever, then you might also believe that death is but temporary.”
“If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.”
“He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever”
“Life is worth living really but only if we believe it is, if we believe further that life is eternal not because the tissues last forever, but because the imagination never dies”
“There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.”