The trouble with righting some wrongs is that it makes the remaining ones seem even more unbearable.
A. A. GillRead
People who know there is a god and people who know there isn't live in exactly the same world. Same number of hours in the day, same weather, same football results. They both love their children and die of the same diseases.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Despite differing beliefs about the existence of God, people experience life similarly in many fundamental ways.
This quote by A. A. Gill highlights the commonality of human experience between those who believe in God and those who do not. It emphasizes that regardless of one's beliefs, people share the same daily realities, love for family, and human vulnerabilities, suggesting that our differences in belief do not fundamentally alter the shared experience of life.
Themes
BeliefRealityExistenceCommonalityHuman Experience
In practice
Example use cases
In a philosophical debate about the nature of existence and belief.
More from A. A. Gill
All quotes →If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
A. A. GillRead
Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
A. A. GillRead
Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more profoundly, neither is it the best.
A. A. GillRead
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
A. A. GillRead
Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.
A. A. GillRead
Similar quotes
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
Fyodor DostoevskyRead
I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly.
Anderson CooperRead
I plainly felt that, had God given me such a retirement with the companion I desired, I should have forgotten the work for which I was born and have set up my rest in this world.
John WesleyRead
I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor.
James OtisRead
If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn't those be attainable by gays and lesbians?
Bill NelsonRead
Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.
Harry FrankfurtRead