“I looked and looked but I didn't see God.”
As quoted in To Rise from Earth (1996) by Wayne Lee; some websites quote him as saying "I looked and looked and looked but I didn't see God." on 14 April 1961, a couple days after his historic flight, but the authenticity of such statements have been disputed; Colonel Valentin Petrov stated in 2006 http://www.interfax-religion.ru/orthodoxy/?act=interview&div=73&domain=1 that the cosmonaut never said such words, and that the quote originated from Nikita Khrushchev's speech at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU about the state's anti-religion campaign, saying "Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there." Gagarin himself was a member of the Russian Orthodox Church.
As quoted in What's Missing Inside You? (2006) by Paul Schlieker, p. 17
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Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, the first human in space 1934–1968Related quotes
“It is alive. It is you,
God. Looking out I can see
no death.”
"Alive", p. 51
Laboratories of the Spirit (1975)
Context: It is alive. It is you,
God. Looking out I can see
no death. The earth moves, the
sea moves, the wind goes
on its exuberant
journeys. Many creatures
reflect you, the flowers
your color, the tides the precision
of your calculations. There
is nothing too ample
for you to overflow, nothing
so small that your workmanship
is not revealed.
As quoted in "Sport: Larry Holmes: I Still Have It" by Tom Callahan in TIME (21 June 1982).
“I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
As quoted in 101 People You Won't Meet in Heaven: The Twisted Achievements of the Most Brutal and Sadistic Individuals the World Has Ever Known (2007) by Michael Powell, p. 148
Video game commentary, Outlast (September 4~8, 2013)
Source: Outlast Part 3, Markiplier, wikipedia:Markiplier, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY1NtCffOGk,
“I didn't know I was looking for anything until I saw you.”
Source: Reflected in You
“You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.”
As quoted by [Agony and Excesses of Stardom, Doug, Hill, Jeff, Weingrad, San Francisco Chronicle, March 4, 1986, 16]