“Can’t you understand what an important task we’ve been entrusted with?”

— Ken Grimwood, book Replay

“By whom, or what? God? This whole experience has made me agree even more with Camus: if there is a God, I despise Him.”
Source: Replay (1986), Chapter 11 (p. 149)

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American writer 1944–2003

Ken Grimwood book Replay

Source: Replay (1986), Chapter 11 (p. 149)

“You can’t change what you don’t understand.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 17.

“No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

Source: The Humans

“What I can’t understand is why you can’t see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?” <br class="br">During his conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, as quoted in The Telegraph, in . In " Richard Dawkins: I can't be sure God does not exist http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9102740/Richard-Dawkins-I-cant-be-sure-God-does-not-exist.html"

“Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

“Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.”

Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) Brazilian architect

Quoted in "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves" http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/architecture_and_design/article3035080.ece, Tom Dyckhoff, The Times Online (London, 2007-12-12).