Dorothy Allison Quotes

One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment. Not that you've got to believe that Jesus was real, or not to believe in God, but the belief that it isn't just happenstance.

Love is the only medicine I believe in.

Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.

First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want to look at life like that. It's bad enough that I have to think it. What works for me is writing against that view. There is God, there is love, there is greatness, there is a plan, and there is beauty.

I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

I can relate to somebody wanting to have something to believe in.

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

A society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

We all need a little something to believe in.

Without faith, life is futile.

I think about love being so important because, to me, that's the reason we were put on Earth. Love, in a sense, is God to me.

Even if you don't believe in God, you have to believe in love.

Love comes to those who believe it, and that's the way it is.

I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe - what other choice was there? We do it every day, I realized. We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics. To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery. To continue believing in yourself, believing in the doctors, believing in thetreatent, believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing.