Jay Asher Quotes

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.

You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

I believe in everything - a little bit.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out. The problem is, I can't tell what's real anymore, and what's made up.

The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those who believe it dangerous to go into it, we can hardly avoid thinking his scepticism to be feigned, and not real.

Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Sometimes I believe...Sometimes I really do believe.