“I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
After hearing Walter Earl Brown's If I Can Dream, the song inspired on Martin Luther King Jr. that would close Elvis' comeback show in 1968, and the phrase was remarked to its producer, Steve Binder. http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/lofiversion/index.php/t15948.html
Lena Horne (1917–2010) American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer
Quoted in: The New Bajan, (1990) p. 22
“I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.”
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
Statement at age 80 in The New York Times (3 April 1970)
Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 119
Sidney Morgenbesser (1921–2004) American philosopher
he asked. "Just because I don't believe in him?" The Independent, The Independent, Professor Sidney Morgenbesser: Philosopher celebrated for his withering New York Jewish humour http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-sidney-morgenbesser-550224.html, 6 August 2004. The Times, Sidney Morgenbesser: Erudite and influential American linguistic philosopher with the analytical acuity of Spinoza and the blunt wit of Groucho Marx https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sidney-morgenbesser-5cz8gg8qfvm (September 8, 2004). Obituaries – Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, Kibitzing Philosopher, Dies http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/04/obituaries/04morgenbesser.html. The New York Times (September 8, 2004).
“I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Source: Wall and Piece
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
As quoted in "Christmas with Christopher Hitchens", by Gregg LaGambina, The A.V. Club (20 December 2007) http://www.avclub.com/article/christmas-with-christopher-hitchens-14189 <br class="br">2000s, 2007