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Quotes About Existence

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
God is the pain of the fear of death
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
~ Gabriel Vahanian
I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.
~ Gene Roddenberry
I'm not Christian, but I'm religious. I believe in a higher God and beings and spirits.
~ Gunplay
I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.
~ Harvey Fierstein
Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
~ Jack Kerouac
Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.
~ John Ford
I do know that there are some things that exist in this world that you just can't prove. That could be the case with God or whoever might be up there, but I don't follow any one religion.
~ Katie Melua
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
~ Charles Baudelaire
It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.
~ Carl Sagan
The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.
~ Mitch Albom
... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.
~ Pat Conroy
Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)
~ Richard Dawkins
I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
~ Al Purdy
You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.
~ Alan Watts
You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.
~ Albert Einstein
Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.
~ Albert Einstein
Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
~ Alexander Pope
Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.
~ Antonia Fraser
Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.
~ Arthur C. Clarke