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"While I lived, I provided for everything but death; now I must die, and am unprepared to die." -- Caesar Borgia
"I say again, if I had the whole world at my disposal, I would give it to live one day. I am about to take a leap into the dark." -- Thomas Hobbs
"All is lost, finally, irrevocable lost. All is dark and doubtful." -- Edward Gibbon
"Stay with me, for God's sake; I cannot bear to be left alone...O Lord, help me! O God, what have I done to suffer so much? What will become of me hereafter?" -- Thomas Payne
"Give me more laudanum that I may not think of eternity and what is to come." -- Honore Gabriel Raqueti Mirabeau
"Until this moment I thought there was neither a God nor a hell. Now I know and feel that there are both, and I am doomed to perdition by the just judgment of the Almighty." -- Sir Thomas Scott
"I am abandoned by God and man; I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months' life." (He said this to Dr. Fochin, who told him it could not be done.) "Then I shall die and go to hell!" -- Voltaire
"Oh, the insufferable pangs of hell! Oh, eternity forever and forever!" -- Sir Francis Newport
"O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul!"
Some say it was this way:
"Oh God, if there be a God, save my soul if I have a soul, from hell, if there be a hell!" -- Robert Ingersoll
"What a fool I have been!" -- Charles Churchill
In the last century, a well-known atheist was riding with Alexander Cambell in a buckboard. As usual, they were discussing atheism. Campbell's visitor pointed to an ox grazing in the nearly field, and said:
"I have no more fear of death than that ox."
To which Campbell replied:
"And no more hope, either."
Some years later at the funeral of the atheist, Campbell was talking with a mutual friend. This one commented:
"There is no one as hard to get along with than an old atheist."
`Nuff said?
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