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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
-Marquis De Sade
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He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
-John Donne
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Atheism is easy in fair weather.
-Ronald Dunn
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame -- Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
-Epicurus
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If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at least in the sense of this work -- is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.
-Ludwig Feuerbach
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
-Don Hirschberg
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An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support
-Aldous Huxley
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An atheist is as religious as a theist.
-Kedar Joshi
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I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.
-Gerald Kersh
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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
-Stephen King
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In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere
-C.S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy (London: Fount, 1977), pp. 153-4, 1955
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If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
-Harold MacMillan
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The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny him with their life style. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
band: dc Talk; album: Jesus Freak; used in the prelude to the song What If I Stumble?
-Brennan Manning
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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).
-George Orwell
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Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.
-John Osborne
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What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
-Boris Pasternak
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If you can't believe in God, chances are your God is too small.
-James Phillips
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.
-Plato
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And as for the unbelievers, their works are as a mirage in a spacious plain which the man athirst supposes to be water, till when he comes to it, he finds it is nothing; there indeed he finds God, and He pays him his account in full; (and God is swift at the reckoning).
-Qur'an
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I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
-Steven H. Roberts
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We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
-Gene Roddenberry
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Books about Atheism
