Jean Paul Quotes

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

I never believed in God, and I will never believe in it.

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an adult - I'm lying in bed thinking, Hmmm, maybe I ought to pray. They always say there are no atheists in a foxhole... and I thought, Here I am in a pretty good-sized foxhole... and I thought Naahhh. I wouldn't respect any God who would listen to me after I'd rejected him so vociferously.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

You should read something else." Why would he have done that to him?" I don't know," she said. Do you ever feel like Job?" She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes. Sometimes." But you haven't lost your faith?" No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine. Is it because you think you might get better?" No," she said,"its because its the only thing I have left.

I believe in nothing.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

You know, for a long time I became almost atheist. I believed in nothing. And it was tough for me to believe in anything at all because I had believed so strongly. And I divorced myself of spirituality, I think.

No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.

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 think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….

If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?

Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.