You are the happiest and honestest thing I ever saw in this godless universe.

For Mansfield, nihilism is the idea that in a godless universe people are free to invent their own identities.

They're as close to a god as these people are likely to find in a godless universe.

It is Lili in a nutshell: observant, ironic, mildly arrogant and strangely lighthearted in the face of a cold and godless universe.

"If some scientists go on to maintain that evolution is therefore conclusive evidence of a godless, purposeless universe, this is a leap into ideology, not a scientifically verifiable truth."

I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck.

But did you ever think of him as a balladeer of the unbearable bleakness of being, of the horror of existing without purpose in a godless universe?

But few can, in mere simplicity, accept a godless universe as a god.

But why use such Judeo-Christocentric imagery when so much of his more famous work revolves around life in a godless universe?

If O'Connor had had a doubting, beatnik younger brother, he might have grown up to write like Stone, whose universe, however godless, possesses a murderous power.