Quotes About Transition

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

I broke with my religion in college.

Science has taken away our religion.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers he looks for others abroad.

Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.

By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

It takes a minute to get use to the TV thing, and I have so much more respect for TV actors now.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.