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Quotes About Questioning

God, who am I?
~ Sylvia Plath
I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been analyzed. Instead, all I could see were question marks.
~ Sylvia Plath
A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.
~ Sylvia Plath
Quién es este terrible muchacho azul, extraño y brillante, como caído de una estrella?
~ Sylvia Plath
Whose is that long white box in the grove, what have they accomplished, why am I cold.
~ Sylvia Plath
What do you do? I asked the man, to break the silence shooting up around me on all sides, thick as jungle grass
~ Sylvia Plath
La vida ha sido una combinación de coincidencia de cuento de hadas y alegría de vivir y choques de belleza, junto con un auto cuestionamiento hiriente.
~ Sylvia Plath
What the hell is tragedy? I am.
~ Sylvia Plath
Where are you going?' I was about to say, 'Back to the asylum', but the man looked promising, so I changed my mind.
~ Sylvia Plath
I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions
~ Sylvia Plath
I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of non-feeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
~ Sylvia Plath
Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman —But who is that on the other side of you?
~ T S Eliot
Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?' But O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag-- It's so elegant So intelligent
~ T. S. Eliot
We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
~ T.S. Eliot
Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question
~ T.S. Eliot
Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question...
~ T.S. Eliot
I sat upon the shore Fishing, with the arid plain behind me Shall I at least set my lands in order? London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina Quando fiam ceu chelidon—O swallow swallow
~ T.S. Eliot
Who is the third who walks always beside you? 360 When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman —But who is that on the other side of you?
~ T.S. Eliot
That corpse you planted last year in your garden, "Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
~ T.S. Eliot
Why should they wait until I came back to Wishwood? There were a thousand places where I might have met them! Why here? why here? Many happy returns of the day, mother.
~ T.S. Eliot
All this was a long time ago, I remember, And I would do it again, but set down This set down This: were we led all that way for Birth or Death?
~ T.S. Eliot
When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer?
~ T.S. Eliot
And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?
~ T.S. Eliot.
Who is the third that walks always beside you? When I count there are only you and I together.
~ T.S.Eliot