Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

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

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 slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

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

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest--that I love the best-- Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest.

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

I see so many people. They just seem to be hopeless. Being a Christian and being a pastor, the ultimate hope is in Jesus.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

I grew up in a house full of faith, and my mother died when I was a little girl, and I found comfort in my faith.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

When you get to that point where you don't want to live, and you don't want to die, it's a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use 'The Passion of the Christ' to heal my wounds.