“Happiness is not a reward / it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment / it is a result.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“When I am suffering, I see death is better than life. When I am happy, I see life is better than death.”
Thanh Luu
“I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.”
Albert Einstein
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation [and] is but a reflection of human frailty.”
“The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
George Bernard Shaw
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar Wilde
