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Quotes About Existence

But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.
~ P. D. James
You got your God and so do I.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.
~ Clarence Darrow
One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.
~ William Peter Blatty
There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly.
~ Ravi Shankar
Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
~ Octavio Paz
Without God all things are permitted.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
~ John Lennon
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
~ Cesare Pavese
When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.
~ Alan Watts
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
~ George Santayana
He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.
~ Paulo Coelho
Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
~ Wally Lamb
If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.
~ Douglas Adams
I don't follow any organized religion, but I do believe in the idea of god as a verb - being love and light. And that we are part of everything as everything is part of us.
~ Sarah McLachlan
There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.
~ Madame de Stael
Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.
~ Paul Davies
What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?
~ Euripides
The day we were born, we were all God's children.
~ Ray Davies
I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
~ Walt Whitman
Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
~ William James
The God of religion exists only in our minds. The real God exists but we can never comprehend him in our minds
~ Siddharth Katragadda
This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.
~ Bertrand Russell