This collection holds 111 disbelief quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Peter Medawar, Ray Bradbury and Melissa Bank.

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I regret my disbelief in God.

Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.

I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

If the actors aren't reacting the way people would react, that's where you step into disbelief.

What’s your name, then? ”Tessa looked at him in disbelief. “What’s my name?” “Don’t you know it?

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

Disbelief in the consequences of wrongdoing has coarsened our society and alienated us one from another.

People don't come up to me very often. Everyone is always in such disbelief that I can go to the market.

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

A sweetly scented angel fell, she laid her head upon my disbelief, and battled with me with her ever smile.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.

The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.

The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

It's so inspiring to be able to look a child in the eyes and just shake their hands and see the disbelief that this is actually happening.

What? You don't think he's cute?" "I didn't really notice." "How can you not notice when a guy is cute?" Melody stared at her in disbelief.

I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it is just distraction.

I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

Suspension of disbelief is a necessary ingredient in all storytelling. So it has been with the government's narrative that it is delivering Brexit.

I might sound audacious, but the Mahatma has been a great inspiration. He had the conviction to live with his beliefs in the face of total disbelief.

If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.

One of the most crucial aspects of a haunted house movie is the fear and disbelief of the characters, because they don't know what's happening to them.

The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.

When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

There's a bit of hazing when it comes to the youth performers and a disbelief that you're capable of handling dramatic or comedic material on an adult level.

You have to be able to invest in your own creations, to suspend your own disbelief in order to be able to write them. We all have to draw the line somewhere.

If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

We've suspended the willing suspension of disbelief. We have given up that relationship, that almost hypnotic engagement, with the characters up on the screen.

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