„Luis Miguel had the pride of the devil and a feeling of absolute superiority that was justified in many things. He had said so long that he was the best that he really believed it. He had to believe it to go on. It was not just something he believed. It was his belief.“

— Ernest Hemingway

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„He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.“
— Flannery O’Connor
„To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„He doesn't believe that public swimming-pools and a kind word in time will right the wrongs of the world; moreover, he takes a drink whenever he feels like it.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.“
— Emily Dickinson
„There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them.“
— E.E. Cummings