eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die

We are told that mankind is the product of a mindless process of evolution. If this is so, our greatest needs are physical and material. Such things as prosperity and pleasure are all that matter. If there is no God, then we should ‘eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die’.

2000, Peter Jeffery, “What is man?”, in Which Way to God?, Darlington, Durham; Webster, N.Y.: Evangelical Press, published 2005 (4th printing), →ISBN, page 8

The captain’s clerk, a man named Mitchell, was a free thinker and only too happy to share his convictions with a young friend. Life, said Mitchell, was for the taking. God was a phantom invented by killjoy religious types. We must eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

2009, Chris R[obert] Armstrong, “John Newton: Proclaiming Grace and Uniting the Church”, in Patron Saints for Postmoderns: 10 from the Past Who Speak to Our Future, Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Books, →ISBN, page 116

Vovo said, only half arguing, “Who can you point out that ever profited by this moderation teaching? Who in history ever got anywhere practicing moderation? Some say you must live to the hilt. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.”

2011, Mack Reynolds, Tomorrow Might Be Different, →ISBN