Belief

Famous quotes containing the word belief:

“Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back- door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

“Hope is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“The worst cynicism: a belief in luck”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)