Quotes About Questioning

Are you seeing him?" he asked indifferently. I laughed, a kind of sob.

Para qué habrán servido entonces todas estas páginas. Me proponía aferrarla, tenerla otra vez a mi lado, y me moriré sin saber si lo he conseguido.

Por qué te ha gustado? —le preguntó Nino. —Todavía no sé si me ha gustado. —Pero te ha intrigado. —Me ha hecho pensar. [...]

He turned to Marirosa, as if irritated by the too private note of our exchange: "Elena is asking what there is to do." Mariarosa answered cheerfully: "The revolution." So I assumed a mocking tone, I said: "And in your free time?

Ahora la aterraba y la hacía sufrir la gruesa alianza que le brillaba en el anular. Incrédula, hizo un repaso de aquel día: la iglesia, el oficio religioso, la fiesta. Qué he hecho, pensó aturdida por el vino, qué es esta argolla de oro, este cero brillante dentro del que he metido el dedo.

What was I like, really?

No lo sé, es difícil dar una respuesta tajante que sea cierta

What unknown abilities had filled this void? Was the world somehow brighter, more tangible, without the nagging interference of language? Was the absence of words actually a form of freedom? I've often tried to quiet that constant voice in my mind, to try to experience the world the way they might—but always the questions rush in faster than I can carve out a moment of true silence.

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

Svetlana said that when she was in the first grade, kids would torture each other in the playground by asking, "Who do you love more, Comrade Tito or your own mother?

How confident the other people in the class seemed to be in the rights that had been conferred on them by being there first—which was really only a matter of luck, because their aunts hadn't happened to call just then. Where, exactly, did they want me to go? Did they want me to just not exist? Was that how the Israelis and Palestinians felt about each other?

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?" If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

There is no more powerful skill for success in any field than knowing how to ask the right questions. A painter, for example, might be working on a body of work, asking, "Is it beautiful? Is it beautiful?" and that might be, unbeknownst to him, the wrong question. He might go completely astray in search of a quality that has nothing at all to do with where the work should be going.

expect me to stand here?" the maid asked in a low hiss. "I'm sorry, Bridget,

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.

Where does someone go when he dies?', 'When does fear end?', 'Where are all the single socks that disappeared in the washing machine?

I asked myself not why I was alive but why I had lived. Out of expectation, I supposed, and wondered whether I still expected anything. It seemed I did. Something more is always expected.

Por qué?- Quiso saber- -¿Y por qué no?- repliqué"- El relato se detiene, hay un espacio en blanco. Se suspende oportunamente: la última frase es magnética, me ha retenido. En efecto, la cuestión no es por que me mataré, sino por qué no matarme.

Me pregunté, no por qué vivía, sino por qué había vivido. Supuse que por la espera y quise saber si aún esperaba algo. Me pareció que sí. Siempre se espera más

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

No me deje en manos de personas llenas de certezas, son gente terrible

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

Each time a follower leaves, wondering why it feels something really good has been said or done.