Famous Secular Humanists Quotes & Sayings

Everyone looks like they've just stepped out of a Dante Gabriel Rossetti painting that he never got around to finishing because even he knew it was too over the top. It — Joe Queenan

It is childish to study a work of fiction in order to gain information about a country or about a social class or about the author. — Vladimir Nabokov

I had a long-standing appointment with my pain. We always rendezvoused at the same time. What would it be like if I changed our meeting location? — Sarah Noffke

You've got to go through hell ... Before you get to heaven ... Let's do 10 more — Frank Giampaolo

I don't need anyone else, which is a great feeling, but also a depressing one. — Kip Pardue

40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered. — Anatoly Chubais

A Christian must not while away time. Get engaged in something — Sunday Adelaja

I can hear you say, "What a horrible, irresponsible bastard!" And you're right. I leap to agree with you. I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me? And wait until I reveal how truly irresponsible I am. Responsibility rests upon recognition, and recognition is a form of agreement. — Ralph Ellison

There is no difference between dark skin and light skin if you are both black. You are not inferior or superior, you are the same race. — Angela Khristin Brown

This is for all the people I'll never meet. This is for the person I might have kissed had I taken a different subway line on Saturday and the person I might have been if that boy hadn't broken my mother's teenage heart. This is for the people I would have loved if last winter hasn't been so cold and for the city I would have called home if I had written haikus on napkins and carried pens in dress pockets and in the knots of my hair. This is for who I was, who I am, who I might be. This is for you. — Chuck Pulaski

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black. — Yoko Ono

One redeeming feature of human beings is that we must work to sustain our survival. Working attaches people to reality; it creates a survival identity, and provides structure to our life. Work provides a person with a temporary purpose and an accompanying sense of security that there is a fitting place in this world for a person of their temperament and talent. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith. — Soren Kierkegaard

Recovery is an unbecoming. My healing has been a peeling away of costume after cstume until here I am, still and naked before God, stripped down to my real identity. — Glennon Doyle Melton

I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music' ... I make fight music, for high school kids. — Eminem