Mario Benedetti Quotes

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

If there is no God, there is no hope.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

I've never met a happy atheist.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

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.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

I believe in God. It's a big part of my life. You can bring it up and talk about it without being 'Christian Rocker.'

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.