“It's all make believe, isn't it?”

“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”

Hermann Hesse book Peter Camenzind

“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

“I laid it all out for him: Eliza believes in me, she moves me, and she's moved BY me. She makes me happy, she makes me sad, she makes me try harder, she makes me laugh, and she makes me feel like I can fly. Isn't that the goddamn definition of Love?”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

“An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it.”

Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer

“Of course, all films are surrealist. They are because they are making something that looks like a real world but isn't.”

Michael Powell (1905–1990) English film director

“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

“Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.”

Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas