Quotes about believer
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“Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Truth, Lie

“I am this space my body believes in.”

Yusef Komunyakaa (1947) American writer

Source: Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

“He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Truth, History, Time, Parting

“I am Tessa Gray,” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Whitechapel Fiend

“When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.”

Jason Fried software entrepreneur

Source: Rework

Decision

“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight to avoid this?”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Variant: Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?
Source: Either/Or, Part I

Life, Thinking

“She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.”

Alice Sebold (1963) American writer

“I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

"RAW Thoughts" at rawilson.com http://www.rawilson.com/thoughts.html

“The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.”

Chris Van Allsburg (1949) US children's writer and illustrator

World, Failure

“It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Love, People, Parting

“Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a riot, and then this morning she'd believed him to be either lazy or an idiot.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Wild Roses

“People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

People, Thinking

“If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.”

Christopher Hitchens Mortality

Source: 2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012), p. 91.

“Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies… for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Love, God, Peace, Law

“You’ll come back
To me…
It’s written in the stars, you see,
you’ll come back.
You’ll come back,
it’s a fact
that I am strong because I do
believe in you.”

Umberto Eco book The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Source: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Star, Strong

“The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.”

Anthony Kiedis book Scar Tissue

Source: Scar Tissue

Love, People, Sadness, Drink

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Life, Lovers

“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

"Evidence"
Evidence (2009)

“Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine.
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God.
Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo, V1

God

“A lie twice believed is self decieved”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: A World Without Heroes

Lie

“I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.”

Maya Angelou book Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

Fear, Dreams, Home

“Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.
Kind of made a male believe in the divine. It really did.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

Life

“For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.”

Michio Kaku (1947) American theoretical physicist, futurist and author

Source: The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

“i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth”

Assata Shakur (1947) American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army

Love, Truth

“Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.”

Sigmund Freud book The Future of an Illusion

Source: 1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 6

“I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: Jayber Crow

Time

“I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Way, Passion, Dance

“Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Death, Question, Joy

“She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by what you think is right.' 'You don't do that anymore?' 'There are questions I don't ask anymore.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

Question, Thinking

“That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book Unaccustomed Earth

Source: Unaccustomed Earth

“Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.”

Deborah Smith (1955) writer of romance and women's fiction

Source: Alice at Heart

For women

“I shall never eat duck again. I cannot believe I used to like duck. The duck betrayed me.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

“I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.”

Philip Pullman (1946) English author

Strong

“It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.”

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) French philosopher (1930-2004)

Source: Paper Machine

Books, Fight

“I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Once and Always

“You'll see it when you believe it.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glow-worm.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

As quoted by Violet Bonham-Carter in Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (1965), according to The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press, p. 155 ISBN 0300107986
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Source: Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

“Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Beauty

“I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.”

Tim Gunn (1953) American actor and fashion consultant

Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

People, Art

“Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.”

Stephen Sommers (1962) American film director

“If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.”

Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City

Source: Sex and the City

Love, Disappointment

“I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.”

Nigella Lawson (1960) British food writer, journalist and broadcaster

Love, Cooking

“But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to give someone a chance to show you who he really was… and believe him when he did.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

Chance

“I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Imagination

“Once you believe in yourself
and see your soul as divine and precious,
you'll automatically be converted
to a being who can create miracles.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Soul

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Art

“I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

Question, Thinking

“… and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

Source: Requiem for a Dream

Dreams, Kiss, Light, Night

“Be it unto you, even as you believe.

In God's economy, we believe first and then see.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God

“There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church — which is, of course, quite a different thing.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

Foreword to Radio Replies Vol. 1, (1938) page ix
Variant: There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church.

Hate, People

“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

People, Truth

“Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Source: Minority Report

Secret

“And if there were two things he believed were limitless, it was love and imagination.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Love, Imagination

“There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Question

“Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.”

Harold Bloom book How to Read and Why

Source: How to Read and Why

Nature, Learning, Reading

“I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed.”

Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer

Source: Clariel

“I believe in movement. I believe in that lighthearted balloon, the world. I believe in midnight and the hour of noon. But what else do I believe in? Sometimes everything. Sometimes nothing. It fluctuates like light flitting over a pond.”

Patti Smith M Train

Source: M Train

World, Light

“I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.”

Queen Latifah (1970) American musician and actress

Source: Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom

Life, Thinking

“I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Reply to a letter sent to him on 17 July 1953 p. 39
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)

“Every war is a murderous struggle between foes. And yet, no army has ever marched into battle believing that the Creator had sided with their enemy.”

Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

War

“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Hell

“I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive… and open to growth”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Thinking

“Maybe instead of stalking her, you should go out with someone else."

He sighed. "You don't think I've tried? How can anyone compare? You might not believe this, but there is no one like Ageline at this school.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

School, Thinking

“Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.”

Walker Percy (1916–1990) Southern philosophical novelist

“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work in the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

World

“Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.”

Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Source: Turn Coat

Stupidity, World, School, Strong

“Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.”

Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Context: Christian, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

Books

“We are always in a hurry to be happy…; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Happiness, Suffering, Time

“No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

“And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

God

“I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.”

Eleanor Hibbert (1906–1993) English novelist

Source: Victoria Victorious: The Story of Queen Victoria

Hate, Happiness, People

“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“I'm sorry," he says. "I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

People, Parting

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them."

"I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly.

"Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

Source: M is for Malice

People, Color

“Credo quia impossibile.’ I believe it because it is impossible.”

Nelson DeMille book The Quest

The Quest

“Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.”

Ted Dekker book Saint

Source: Saint

Faith, Nature

“Leo: “I can’t believe I thought you were hot.”
Khione’s face turned red. “Hot? You dare insult me? I am cold, Leo Valdez. Very, very cold.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame

Change, Parting

“I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.”

George Carlin book Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

Happiness, World

“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.”

Robert Benchley (1889–1945) American comedian

Vanity Fair (February 1920)
Variant: There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.
Context: There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not. Both classes are extremely unpleasant to meet socially, leaving practically no one in the world whom one cares very much to know.

People, World

“I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

Mountain

“Every man believes to some extent that the world began when he was born and, at the moment of leaving it, suffers at having to let the Universe remain unfinished.”

Maurice Druon (1918–2009) French writer

Source: El rey de hierro

World, Suffering, Universe

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

Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer

People, Idea

“It's hard to believe how much light you cand find in the darkness, when you have someone who loves you.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Pale Kings and Princes

Love, Light

“I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.”

Paul Krugman book The Conscience of a Liberal

Source: The Conscience of a Liberal (2007), Ch. 13. The Conscience of a Liberal http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=5887. W. W. Norton & Company. 352 pages ISBN 978-0-393-06069-0, 1st edition (2007)

Law, Democracy, Support, Wealth

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper