"Gods, too, decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
"It turns out, of course, that it is Nietzsche who is dead; God remains. Like all those before him and after who share his view, he understood that if God is dead - if there is no truth - then everything is permitted. We create a vacuum that human power will fill."
— William Bennett, Truth
"God died in Auschwitz."
— Elie Wiesel
"Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken."
"Whether God is dead or not hardly matters, for we would use him no differently anyway."
— Joseph Heller, God Knows
"In spite of increasing production and comfort, man loses more and more the sense of self, feels that his life is meaningless, even though such a feeling is largely unconscious. In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead."
— Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
"Dead are all gods: now we desire the overman to live!"
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra
"Oh, no! The zombies killed God!"
— Zoey, after seeing graffiti in Dead Air reading the trope name
Your god is dead, and no one cares!
If there is a hell, I'll see you there!
If there is a hell, I'll see you there!
— Nine Inch Nails, "Heresy"
Dead/ Your god is dead.
Fools/ Your god is dead.
Fools/ Your god is dead.
— Morbid Angel, "Chapel of Ghouls"
"Thank Dead God I caught you!"
— Junior starts the Running Gag in Starship
"Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns."
Kaladin: Wait! Why is there so much violence? Why must we fight one another?
Stormfather: ODIUM REIGNS.
Stormfather: ODIUM REIGNS.
"I am... I was God. The one you call the Almighty, the creator of mankind... And now I am dead. Odium has killed me. I am sorry."
"Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do."
—Kaladin, Words of Radiance
"These wicked people are too proud to seek God. They seem to think God is dead."
— Psalm 10
"Do you remember the twentieth century? Think the twenty-first is going any better? You think God would have let any of that happen if He were alive?"
"So this zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking if I ever think about God. So I tell him I killed God. I tracked God down like a rabid dog, hacked off his legs with a hedge trimmer, raped him with a corncob and boiled off his corpse in a acid bath."
— Spider Jerusalem, Transmetropolitan
"Just over a century ago, the god of humanity died."
— Pathfinder, Inner Sea World Guide
"Gods do die. It doesn't generally make them any less dangerous."
— Murai, Digger
"Glory to the Divine Corpse, o breaker of infinities."
— "Meti's Sword Manual", Kill Six Billion Demons
Slave Demon: Hellboy, do you remember me?
Hellboy: You guys all look the same.
Slave Demon: I was at the bridge when you fought Eligos. I helped you there, and you promised you'd remember me when you came into your kingdom.
Hellboy: That's right.
Slave Demon: But now there is no kingdom. No more princes. No generals. No dukes or lords.
Hellboy: Just you guys, the working class. I get it.
Slave Demon: It was their dream to escape this place, not ours. We want only Pandemonium. We were slaves there. We did the work. Shouldn't we have the reward?
Hellboy: Grapes of Wrath, baby. Just look out for that guy in the basement.
Slave Demon: Haven't you heard? Someone went down there and cut his throat.
Hellboy: The what?
Hellboy: You guys all look the same.
Slave Demon: I was at the bridge when you fought Eligos. I helped you there, and you promised you'd remember me when you came into your kingdom.
Hellboy: That's right.
Slave Demon: But now there is no kingdom. No more princes. No generals. No dukes or lords.
Hellboy: Just you guys, the working class. I get it.
Slave Demon: It was their dream to escape this place, not ours. We want only Pandemonium. We were slaves there. We did the work. Shouldn't we have the reward?
Hellboy: Grapes of Wrath, baby. Just look out for that guy in the basement.
Slave Demon: Haven't you heard? Someone went down there and cut his throat.
Hellboy: The what?
"Our gods are dead. Ancient Klingon warriors slew them millennia ago. They were more trouble than they were worth."
— Worf, Star Trek: The Next Generation
God sleeps
And his children start a fire
Which they cannot extinguish,
And he will never be able to awaken.
And his children start a fire
Which they cannot extinguish,
And he will never be able to awaken.
—"Somnus", (translated from Latin) Final Fantasy XV
Sergeant Howie: And what of the TRUE God? Whose glory, churches and monasteries have been built on these islands for generations past? Now sir, what of him?
Lord Summerisle: He's dead. Can't complain, had his chance and in modern parlance, blew it.
Lord Summerisle: He's dead. Can't complain, had his chance and in modern parlance, blew it.
"The God you cravenly revere is dead. Slain by my own hand, that humanity might finally live unbound from their chains."
—Lucifer, Shin Megami Tensei V
The pieces never fit together to begin with.
The supposed Council of "the people" who boasted a God that wasn't there. Gone. Vanished. The council still chased after the light of God's fire, their memory of its words and will grown twisted and warped, and the rest of the aimless masses of Heaven follow their footsteps. The angels still act in The Father's name but His kingdom has changed.
Now the fire was dying, sputtering out as the heat failed to gain purchase.
The supposed Council of "the people" who boasted a God that wasn't there. Gone. Vanished. The council still chased after the light of God's fire, their memory of its words and will grown twisted and warped, and the rest of the aimless masses of Heaven follow their footsteps. The angels still act in The Father's name but His kingdom has changed.
Now the fire was dying, sputtering out as the heat failed to gain purchase.
—ULTRAKILL, Act II epilogue
And when we finally kill the gods neither hell nor heaven will be waiting for them because they created those to imprison us
— malewifecombat, Tumblr
