Quotes About Belief

You can bet on Franco, or Mussolini, or Hitler, if you want. But my money goes on Hipolito.

In those days you did not really need anything, not even the rabbit's foot, but it was good to feel it in your pocket.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

hope no fish will come along so great that he will prove us wrong.

You know I do know how he feels. He can't believe it didn't mean anything.

Dante only made crazy people feel they could write great poetry. That was not true of course but then almost nothing was true and especially not in Africa. In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect weed-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.

Listen, Jake, he said, are you really a Catholic? Technically. What does that mean? I don't know.

Don't you know it is wrong to kill? Yes. But you do it? Yes. And you still believe absolutely that your cause is right? Yes.

If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die on it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died.

He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and only could be hurt truly by what happened to others. He believed this, wrongly of course since he did not know then how one's capacities can change, nor how the other could change, and it was a comfortable belief.

I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations.

I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this, he said. Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I'll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say them now.

Make it all up. But make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. Ernest Hemingway

Who knows? Since we do not have God here any more, neither His Son nor the Holy Ghost, who forgives? I do not know.

I have trust. I have complete trust. -You have youth, trust and a job. You have it all.

Don't think about that either. If you don't think about it, it doesn't exist. The hell it doesn't. But that's the system I'm going on, he thought.

You learned the dry-mouthed, fear-purged, purging ecstasy of battle and you fought that summer and that fall for all the poor in the world, against all tyranny, for all the things you believed and for the new world you had been educated into.

They should be rescued from ignorance." "Don't talk nonsense. Education is an opium of the people. You ought to know that. You've had a little." "You do not believe in education?" "No," said Mr. Frazer. "In knowledge, yes." "I do not follow you.

It is only in defeat that we become Christian

É uma estupidez não ter esperança.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God. Some people have God, I said. Quite a lot. He never worked very well with me.

Religion is the opium of the poor. I thought marijuana was the opium of the poor.

If there were God, never would He have permitted what I have seen with my eyes. Let them have God.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God. Some people have God, I said. Quite a lot. He never worked very well with me. Should we have another Martini? The barman shook up two more Martinis and poured them out into fresh glasses.