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  • God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage
  • God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

    Death   Science   Knives  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage
  • Woman was God's second mistake.

    The Antichrist aphorism 48 (1888) (translation by Walter Kaufmann) See Hannah Cowley 1
  • Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

    God   Long   Impossible  
  • One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation; that is, nobody in your audience. My audience are the people who think God is dead. At least these are the people I am conscious of writing for.

    Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.92, Macmillan
  • 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!"

    Heart   Saint   Forests  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.37, Friedrich Nietzsche
  • My life and my whole eternity belongs to God. All this stuff is temporary. Money, fame, successtemporary. Even life is temporary. Jesusthat's eternal.

    Stuff   Life Is   Fame  
  • If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

    God   Religious   Atheist  
    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.40, St. Martin's Press
  • Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

  • If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

    George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.13403, e-artnow
  • God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.

    Atheist   Play   Atheism  
    Charles W. Colson (2010). “God and Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries between Faith and Politics”, p.198, Harper Collins
  • The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it, as if they knew what it is they are denying. This misuse gives rise to absurd beliefs, assertions, and egoic delusions, such as "My or our God is the only true God, and your God is false," or Nietzsche's famous statmeent "God is dead.

    Mean   Talking   Years  
  • What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

  • PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!

    Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.311, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "-- as near as I can figure out, God is dead." Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick.

    Sick   Tape   Figures  
    Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

  • God is dead. Let us not understand by this that he does not exist or even that he no longer exists. He is dead. He spoke to us and is silent. We no longer have anything but his cadaver. Perhaps he slipped out of the world, somewhere else like the soul of a dead man. Perhaps he was only a dream...God is dead.

  • God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

    Men   Years   Shadow  
    The Gay Science bk. 3, sec. 108 (1882) (translation by Walter Kaufmann) See Nerval 2; Nietzsche 12
  • There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

    "God Is Not. Great!". Interview with Nick Gillespie, reason.com. April, 2012.
  • Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!

  • God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.' 'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are,' Charley said. 'And evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. But that doesn't prove it was God.

    Space   Floating   World  
    Philip K. Dick (2013). “Our Friends from Frolix 8”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

    Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan
  • God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!

    Fear   Atheism   Care  
    "Song: 'Heresy'". 1994.
  • How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.

    Hate   Thinking   World  
    Anne Rice (1997). “Memnoch the Devil”, Random House Digital, Inc.
  • In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

    God   Time   Men  
    The Sane Society (1955) ch. 9
  • Nietzsche says God is dead. Probably now God says Nietzsche is dead! The one that will die is religion, not the God! God will always live!

  • It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to the declaration of a clearly unbalanced nineteenth century philosopher that God is dead! That's cheeky, of course - and one rarely comes away from reading Nietzsche without learning something new and significant. He's certainly FAR more unsettling for faith than any contemporary atheist I know of.

    Atheist   Reading   Pride  
    "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
  • God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.

    God   Wells   Feels  
    "Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology". Book by Jules Chametzky. Chapter: "Jewish Humor", p. 318, 2000.
  • We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.

    God   Dad   Mean  
  • Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we’ve got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead.” “He’s not dead; just very tired.

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