Yukio Mishima Quotes

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float. And this is exactly the situation of faith.

He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.

We need each other, We believe in one another, And I know we're gonna uncover, What's sleepin' in our soul...

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.

There is a challenge of doing something new. Sometimes you have to suspend whether you believe in yourself doing it and just give yourself over to the idea that they believe in you.

Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.

I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.

If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.

it was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

I was not raised with religion, and I had no faith before my mother died. On the other hand, when she died, I did not immediately feel she was "gone." I don't believe she is in something like heaven, but I also feel that we don't understand much about the nature of the universe. So I hold on to that uncertainty, at times.

To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.