Disbelief Quotes

Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.

— Ray Bradbury

“Willing Suspension of Disbelief”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I regret my disbelief in God.

— Peter Medawar

“It seems the more we know, the less we believe.”

— J.S.B. Morse

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

— Melissa Bank

In acting it's all about suspension of disbelief.

— Nicola Coughlan

I believe in GOD. (GOD = Getting Over Dogma).

— Rock Cowles

“entrenched disbelief is oddly immune to evidence.”

— Frans de Waal

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

— Peter Greenaway

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

— Tom Robbins

“You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.”

— Rebecca Murphy

“Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Hope greets your desires warmly while doubts insult your efforts bitterly!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.

— Stephen Sondheim

I find a thrill in the doubt, the hate, the disbelief.

— Jalen Hurts

True, this world of ours is full of hatred and disbelief, but that is no reason why we should not love and…

— Sri Chinmoy

“people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection”

— Natascha Kampusch

I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel…

— Tom Mison

“The true misfits are the ones who don't think they are. Sometimes the concepts that ground us in quiescent certainty are the…

— Robyn Alana Engel

I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing…

— Sharon Salzberg

“With growing disbelief, Jess yet again felt herself slipping into the gap - that gap of perception between what is really happening…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“Walk in faith. Do not let your doubts take the lead ahead of you; they will show you the wrong path. Being…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“I mean you're cute, but not that cute. Would Rhea really risk life in a maximum security detention unit just so that…

— Malorie Blackman

It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against…

— H. P. Lovecraft

But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from…

— Oscar Wilde

Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod,"…

— Harold B. Lee

People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at…

— Henry Rollins

I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and…

— Jon Foreman

I'm obsessed with this idea of storytellers and people who have a narrative, and sometimes sustain a relationship because they're telling a…

— Atom Egoyan

I watched Ozzy Osbourne's show for a while because I just couldn't believe what was going on, I mean it was total…

— Chuck Woolery

“He touched her cheek, his throat tightening as he fought past the confusion, the disbelief that this woman could love him. That…

— Lora Leigh

“When Sean died she understood for the first time how completely human beings were dependent upon a suspension of disbelief in order…

— Erica Bauermeister

There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been…

— Peggy Noonan

There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead…

— Wendy Kaminer

“Some comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a…

— Thomas Carlyle

I start off with the obvious, that it makes no sense either to believe or to disbelieve in God until a substantial…

— Kenny Smith

“Perhaps all love affairs are nothing more than the projections of hopeful hearts looking for soft lodging in a world that would…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but…

— Kingsley Amis

If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who…

— Clarence Darrow