Poetry Quote by Richard Dawkins — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”

“When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.”

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

“Some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea / what this means is that I don't know / desire other than the need / to be shattered & rebuilt / the mind forgetting / the body's crime of living”

“Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone,”

“Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·”

“I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.”

“Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.”

“Let us go then, you and I,”