Quotes About Belief

Don't you think"—he smiled—"that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?" "No, I don't. And do you know why?" "No." Nenneke leaned over and looked him in the eyes with a strange smile on her pale lips. "Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn't regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret. -Margarita / The Time of Contempt

Love,' Fringilla said slowly, 'is like renal colic. Until you have an attack, you can't even imagine what it's like. And when people tell you about it you don't believe them.

And a day will come, perhaps, when we shall stop believing at all that something is lurking in the darkness. We shall laugh at such fears. Call them childish. Be ashamed of them! But darkness will always, always exist. And there will always be Evil in the darkness, always be fangs and claws, death and blood in the darkness. And witchers will always be needed.

There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale

For it's a human and a good thing. Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any.

Necio es quien a las visiones de los sueños concede crédito y se adentra en el camino de las quimeras. Mas todo aquel que precie de menos los sueños y en nada los tenga, procede también con poco seso. ¿Pues acaso si los sueños no hubieran de tener sentido alguno, nos habrían dotado los dioses de la capacidad de soñar?

Dandelion to Geralt: Change your job and become a priest. You'd be decent with your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people's nature and every single thing. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem. I know very few prists who do. Become a priest and stop complaining about yourself.

No," the witcher agreed. "They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

Foolish indeed is he who lends credence to dreams and treads the path of delusion. Nonetheless, whoever disdains and does not believe them at all also acts unwisely. For if dreams had no import whatsoever why, then, would the Gods, in creating us, give us the ability to dream?

Become a priest. You wouldn't be bad at it with all your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people and of everything. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem—I don't know many priests who do. Become a priest and stop feeling sorry for yourself.

There may no longer be faith nor truth in the world, but surely good sense still exists.

Sono tempi difficili. Difficili e pericolosi. Viviamo in un'epoca di cambiamenti. Sarebbe un peccato invecchiare nella convinzione di non aver fatto nulla affinché questi cambiamenti fossero per il meglio.

Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all." A GRAIN OF TRUTH I A number of black points moving against a bright sky streaked with mist drew the witcher's attention.

Esa sería la primera prueba que llegase a mi conocimiento de que la incredulidad tenga alguna clase de poder.

I don't know,' said Geralt with effort. 'I don't know, Yurga. Sometimes it seems to me that I know. And sometimes I have doubts. Would you like your son to have doubts like that?' 'Why not?' the merchant said gravely. 'He might as well. For it's a human and a good thing.' 'What?' 'Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any.

Then you'll go hungry. Unless you change your line of work." "To what?" "Whatever. Become a priest. You wouldn't be bad at it with all your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people and of everything. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem—I don't know many priests who do. Become a priest and stop feeling sorry for yourself.

Don't you think"—he smiled—"that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?" "...Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

Because your faith and sacrifice, the price you're paying for your silence, will make you a better, a greater being. Or, at least, it could. But my faithlessness can do nothing. It's powerless. 'You ask what I believe in, in that case.' 'I believe in the sword.

Because your faith and sacrifice, the price you're paying for your silence, will make you a better, a greater being. Or, at least, it could. But my faithlessness can do nothing. It's powerless.

Whatever. Become a priest. You wouldn't be bad at it with all your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people and of everything. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem—I don't know many priests who do.

Nie drwij z cudzej religii, ani to Å'adne, ani grzeczne, ani... bezpieczne.

In every religion, among the people who believe in it and fight for it, there is one Francis of Assisi to a legion of Brother Arnulphs.

There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale