Geoff Dyer Quotes

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

I don't believe in God anymore.

Nobody really knows if there's a God - not Oprah, not Joel Osteen, not the Pope. Nobody has touched or felt or conversed with God. They say they have, but let's get real. I think that is what keeps me from coming out as an atheist. I think to myself, even the atheists don't know that there isn't a God. Nobody knows anything.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

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

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

Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from God, that this is the sound that God’s voice makes in a world that has explained him away. In such a world, I suspect that maybe God speaks to us most clearly through his silence, his absence, so that we know him best through our missing him.

Atheism is spreading like wildfire.

I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as God.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.

I would thank God, but I don't believe in it.

There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.

I am without religious feeling.

If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.

Can it be that we, too, are ready to embrace the foul concepts of atheism? Somebody is tampering with America's soul, I leave it to you who that somebody is.

None but God can fill the perfect whole.