"Applaud, friends, the comedy is over."
[Beethoven's sarcastic remarks after a priest's last rites as he
lay dying in 1827; the priest had been summoned by religious
friends. Fellow composer Joseph Haydn considered Beethoven an
atheist. As quoted in "2000 Years of Disbelief, Famous People with
the Courage to Doubt", by James A. Haught, Prometheus Books, 1996]