Quotes About Belief

Madness, it became convenient to believe quite early on, came with the territory, on the order of earthquakes.

A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging. Wrong, I want to say. In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging. In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age.

I had believed in the logic of popular songs. I had looked for the silver lining. I had walked on through the storm.

I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.

Tell me," a rabbi asked Daniel Bell when he said, as a child, that he did not believe in God. "Do you think God cares?")

It was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event that prevented me from truly believing it had happened, absorbing it, incorporating it, getting past it.

In the South they are convinced that they have bloodied their place with history. In the West we do not believe that anything we do can bloody the land, or change it, or touch it.

Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made.

Some people around San Bernardino say that Arthwell Hayton suffered; others say that he did not suffer at all. Perhaps he did not, for time past is not believed to have any bearing upon time present, or future, out in the golden land where every day the world is born anew.

I was raised to believe that what came in on the next roll would always be better than what went out on the last. I no longer believe that...

Yet I was myself in no way prepared to accept this news as final: there was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible. That was why I needed to be alone. After

Emergency, I continue to believe, is what happens to someone else. I say that I continue to believe this even as I know that I do not.

This is a case in which I need more than words to find the meaning. This is a case in which I need whatever it is I think or believe to be penetrable, if only for myself.

De ce trebuie s? ai mereu dreptate, îmi spunea el. N-a înÈ›eles vreodat? c? în mintea mea n-aveam niciodat? dreptate.

I'm not optimistic, darling, but I'm hopeful. There's a difference. I'm hopeful.

I superstiti si voltano indietro e scorgono presagi, messaggi di cui non si sono accorti.

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception.

This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future.

what we are talking about here is faith in a dramatic convention.

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

In that instant I thought I grieved for James Jones, a man I never met, but I think I grieved for all of us: for Jones, for myself, for the sufferers of mean guilts and for their exorcists, for Robert E. Lee Prewitt, for the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and for this golden nitwit who believed eternity to be a psychic science.

Because he made her so happy, she said, and for that moment believed it.

Los recuerdos se borran, la memoria se adapta, la memoria se ajusta a lo que creemos recordar.

for time past is not believed to have any bearing upon time preset or future, out in the golden land where every day the world is born anew