“The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.”
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti 33
English poet, illustrator, painter and translator 1828–1882Related quotes
“He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it.”
1777
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“Speaking as a devout atheist, thank God in his Almighty wisdom that he made us mortal.”
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“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
On Peter Porter, 'Talking for Posterity' (Times Literary Supplement, May 14, 2010)
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Context: [H]e could never have played the hero, because for him it was creativity itself that had the heroic status, beyond politics, beyond patriotism, beyond even personal happiness. It’s the reason why his work is like that. His poetry, so wonderful when it is really flying, isn’t trying to tell you how much he knows. It’s giving thanks for how much there is to be known.
“I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama.”
As quoted in "Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu" at BBC News (2 June 2006) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5040198.stm
Context: I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: "You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian"? I don't think that is the case — because, you see, God is not a Christian.