Top 121 Atheist Quotes

No, I’m not religious. At all. I’m an atheist.

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

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

I think that if you are a resolute, unswerving atheist, you have that sense that you are conscious of the God-shaped hole that has been left in the wake of any religious belief, and in a way, one is much more drawn to articulate why it is that certain places, or certain experiences, have a kind of power.

Everything I do is somehow rooted in humanity. It’s always about people; it’s always about ego. It’s always about desperation. It’s quite existential. You know, ‘Am I leading a good life?’ That might be because I’m an atheist, and I think this is all we’ve got, so you better be nice. And have fun.

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

Palestinians are Christian, Muslims, atheist, Buddhist – you name it. And the majority I know have nothing against Judaism and everything against Israeli oppression.

I’m constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page – I didn’t create the Wiki page, others did, and I’m flattered that people cared enough about my life to assemble it – and it said, ‘Neil deGrasse is an atheist.’

I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.

I’m sure Obama is an atheist; I’m sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That’s me.

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and I became fascinated by the traditions she brought into our lives.

For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums.

I don’t believe in God, in prayer, in going to temples begging God to give me and my family happiness. I am not asking everyone to be an atheist, but good thoughts are not spent in a temple.

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.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

I like churches and Catholic symbolism, and although the art at the Vatican is overwhelming to see, I appreciated it even as an atheist.

I suppose I’m a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

In the best atheist sense of the word, I feel blessed.

Even though I don’t believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.

Being an atheist means you have to realise that when you die, that really is it. You’ve got to make the most of what you’ve got here and spread as much influence as you can. I believe that you only live through the influence that you spread, whether that means having a kid or making music.

A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they’ll do is say, ‘You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.’ And my answer is always, ‘I hope so.’

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don’t constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood – which are my ideals.

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.

The atheist has no hope.

You give up a lot being an atheist.

The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

I went on a Buddha jag. I read ‘Confession of a Buddhist Atheist’ by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong’s biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

I was raised Christian; I was raised in the South where everybody’s raised Christian, but at this point, I’m 41 years old, and I’ve been an atheist, at this point, a little more than half my life.

I’m an atheist. I don’t have a religion.

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I’m a self-described atheist.

The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, atheist, Marxist Democrats. It was the antithesis of Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.’s community at that time, which was capitalist, Christian, very pro-life, and pro-America.

I’m pretty much an atheist, so I’d say this world is the only thing we got.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‘What a waste of energy.’ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I don’t believe in God, though I’m not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: ‘There are no atheists in foxholes.’ I’ve never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I’ll let you know if I believe in God or not.

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

I’m a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion – usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency.

I am against the word ‘anti’ because it’s a little bit like ‘atheist,’ as compared to ‘believer.’ And an atheist is just as much of a religious man as the believer is.

My family is not only not religious, but my parents are both – they’re secularists. My father is actually an atheist and feels very strongly about it.

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.

Rather than say he’s an atheist, a friend of mine says, ‘I’m a tooth fairy agnostic,’ meaning he can’t disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

If you say that there was no first cause (a Creator), then you are stuck with the unscientific and thoughtless belief that nothing created everything. So, what is it that you believe? Is it that something created everything? Then you are not an atheist, because you believe in a Creator.

I am a born-again atheist, so there isn’t going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.

It’s our culture, Christian history, that’s what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We’re just built that way.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

When I started law school in 2010, I would have called myself an atheist. When I graduated law school in 2013, I was exploring my faith again. A lot changed in those three years.

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I’m grown up, though, I’m not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Now, I’m an atheist. I really don’t believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

Although I’m an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the ‘religious pain’ that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world’s most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.

I’m an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.