# Quote — H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

> In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.

- Author: [H.L. Mencken](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken.md)
- Book: [A Mencken Chrestomathy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken#A_Mencken_Chrestomathy_(1949)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md), [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy/in-every-unbelievers

## More from this book

> Theology — An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy/theology-an-effort.md)

Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md)

> Jury — A group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy/jury-a-group.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)

> No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy/no-matter-how.md)

Topics: [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md)