Quotes About Questioning

If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

Hello, Not-There," Piper said. Not-There was her private name for God just lately. Earlier in the fall it had been The Great Maybe. During the summer, it had been The Omnipotent Could-Be.

Why didn't you kill me like you did that guy back there? Billy? Or does it even make any sense to ask? Are you beyond why?' Oh shit, we're all beyond why, you know that.

Why did this disease choose me? I cannot carry it, if its just for the word: Fate.

U r looking at me in a particular way- & I am not that. I am something else. What am I- I don't know.

To really meet the mystery, we must be uncertain.

I stared out at the waves. "Why am I here?" I thought. Finally it came to me. But it was too late. I was a terrible lifeguard.

Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and watching TV- and why they would want to.

Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don't think Fortune has anything to do with it?

And that was it. That was the moment when everything started to shift. What do you want?

Do not just go through the day without pausing to ponder! You shall only retire wondering.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

There's no truth anymore.

What is all the racket about? Did you put red pepper on the lollypops?

I looked at my boyfriend and wondered if he was actually an alien.

As if something's missing. I feel as if there's some puzzle to which I don't hold all the pieces. Does that sound terribly silly?