Quotes About Questioning

I don't worship comedy; at the end of the day, I don't fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.

The worst thing when you're working is to say, 'I have a question,' and the other person goes, 'No! This is what it is.' That kind of rigidity is very challenging because musicals are constantly mutating.

Is anything worth it?

Sometimes at night during the season I was going through hell. Waking up in, who knows, Sacramento, in L.A., in the middle of the night alone in a hotel and thinking, 'Why am I here? Is it really worth it?'

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

You have to be brave and ask the questions on the tip of your tongue.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

I think part of being Jewish is that innate desire to question things. Rabbis sit around all day and question the Torah. Giving yourself the room to question things, in a religion, just breeds thinking.

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream?, or are you really as beautiful us you seem?

What does it all mean?" many wonder while chasing purposes they're told are worthwhile, but which feel empty. "What is the purpose of this life?" humans have wondered for millennia, contemplating how insignificant we are in the great cosmic symphony.

Long ago, in conversation with one of the Shonto, Hakata observed that most people preferred an ill considered answer to an intelligent question. I have come to Seh to seek truths, and in this endeavor I am prepared to ask difficult questions and then to live without immediate answers if that is what is required.

A direct question in the company of men is in most contexts a sort of insult, something you learn young in Sligo bars.

Lost something?' Yes, my mind.

All of you want to question everything. Is there any more pointless way of wasting away your life than searching for answers that will bring you nothing

My sense of self has expanded and contracted like a schizophrenic accordion. I have questioned everything, and I have felt nothing. I have told the universe to f**k off, and I have fallen down weeping at its compassionate response.

Magic Mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?

Isn't that always the way! Just when you really want to know if you did the right thing or not. But no one will ever answer that question for you.

You cross a border because you are searching, because you want more, because you want to match where you are with who you are, because you want to test your place. Maybe because you want to expand your sense of place. You are searching for something that may as yet be indefinable. A border crosser questions the very idea of home.

je me demande... si cette armure n'est pas So. Alors je voudrais le demander à la girafe la prochaine fois.