Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

Richard Dawkins

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Sri Chinmoy

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

Shirin Ebadi

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Salman Rushdie

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

Salman Rushdie

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

T. S. Eliot

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

Thomas Paine

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

Tom Perrotta

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

Mary Karr

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Marcel Proust

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

Rupert Brooke

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

Henry R. Luce

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Annie Besant

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

Anne Carson

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

Annie Dillard

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

Annie Dillard

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

Annie Dillard

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

Annie Dillard

She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Annie Dillard

The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

Andrea Dworkin