Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.

I've got no religious beliefs at all.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

I don't believe in God. So I'm a non-believer in the non-visible. I'm a believer in us; in humans.

I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

I'm not a religious person.

As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

I'm not a religious person at all.

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

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.

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person.

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.