Anthony Burgess Quotes

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

I don't see any god up here.

The absurd is sin without God.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

[I'm] almost positive there is no God.

I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

I think God is something that people use to avoid reality. I think faith allows people to reject what is right in front of our eyes, which is that thing, this life, this existence, this consciousness, or whatever word you want to use for it, is all we have, and all we'll ever have. I think people have faith because they want and need to believe in something, whatever that something is, because life can be hard and depressing and brutal if you don't.

I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

I believe in nothing.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

To be quite honest, I'm not religious.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

God is dead!

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.

I don't think I have any particular problem with God.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.

That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.

I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.

God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!

And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".