Divine Absence Quotes

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

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Hell is God's Absence.

When I look up into the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is I really see there, I am constrained to say, ´there is no god´.

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

For me, God is cold.

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.

"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

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

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

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.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

I've talked to biblical cats, and Neanderthals who been here since day one. No one here has even seen the Big Boss. Ever.

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"