Answers Quote by Richard Matheson

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

— Marcus Aurelius

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes…

— Vikram Seth

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin…

— Oscar Wilde

Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to…

— Anonymous

They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might…

— Upton Sinclair

People never really died. They only went on to a better place, to wait a while for their loved ones to join them. And…

— Anonymous

The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

— Ray Bradbury

And lending it one mental fillip the more, the fact that all these people were inwardly attacked by well-nigh resistless decay, and that most…

— Thomas Mann

This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.

— Herman Melville

People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.

— Terry Pratchett

In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring infidelity, and…

— William Carey