"I had to get rid of any idea……" — Frank McCourt
"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church."
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57 Quotes by Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt has 57 quotes on this site.
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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
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If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying…
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Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried…
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There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can…
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I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not…
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It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
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He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and…
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It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd…
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People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version:…
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I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family...
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Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on…
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I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is…
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More Afterlife Quotes
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
— Karen Armstrong
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely…
— Douglas Adams
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During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem…
— John Boehner
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
— George Carlin
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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill
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I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
— Jarvis Cocker
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There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
— Paulo Coelho
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Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that…
— William Ames
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven…
— Isaac Asimov
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The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.
— Woody Allen
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I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.
— Woody Allen
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