Belief Quote by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating…

— William James

It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the…

— Alice Munro

The aim of dis-incumbence is a hubristic one, for it requires confidence in the ability of men and women to live in the belief…

— David E. Cooper

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make…

— J. M. Coetzee

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

— Bertrand Russell

My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face.…

— J. Robert Lennon

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion…

— Dorianne Laux

“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.

— Monica Ali

More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching…

— Merrill Markoe

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the [external] situation but your thoughts about it.”

— Robert S. Rosenthal