Mark Frost Quotes

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

… religion is poison

I don't think of myself as a spiritual person.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

All the religions are super funny to me.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

Human beings are religious animals.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.

I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.

I don't have anyone around me that's not spiritual.

I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.

Religion is constantly being talked about, debated, pondered, worried about.