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Modernist literature2 quotes
It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve. — James Joyce · 1915Let us pray to God... The bastard! He doesn't exist! — Samuel Beckett · 1957Autobiography and memoir1 quote
He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him). — George Orwell · 1933Commencement address1 quote
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. — David Foster Wallace · 2005Philosophical literature1 quote
God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882Religious literature1 quote
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. — Psalm 14:1 · 450 BC