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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter XVIn context
- Beauty
God bless us every one!
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Christmas
Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm?
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter CXXXIIIn context
- Freedom
Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying:
—That is God.
Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee!
—What? Mr Deasy asked.
—A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part I, Episode 2In context
Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Phase the Seventh: Fulfilment, Chapter LIXIn context
- Justice
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Vanity Fair (1848), Chapter XXXVIIIn context
- Children
- Family
When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.”
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On LoveIn context
- Love
Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering, Chapter IIIIn context
- Forgiveness
I think if the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book V: Pro and Contra, Chapter IVIn context
- Good & Evil
It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book V: Pro and Contra, Chapter IVIn context
- Anti-God
Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book VI: The Russian Monk, Chapter IIIIn context
- Love
- Nature
I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885), First Part, VIIIn context
- Dancing
As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods,
They kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by GloucesterIn context
- Life & Death
Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:
Think’st thou that I, who saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,
In being depriv’d of everlasting bliss?
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by MephistophilisIn context
- Religion
But where says some is the King of America? I’ll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense (1776), Part 2In context
- America