Quotes About Questioning

CHYTERA: [...] May I... May I ask? You wear a wedding ring, but on the wrong hand. Indulge my curiosity? ERASMO: She didn't want to get married. Doesn't mean I wasn't her husband.

Why…" Sophia raises her eyes to the ceiling, searching for a divinity that is not there, not for her. Her eyes fill up with hopelessness. She asks a question older than day and night. "Why doesn't He love me like He loves you?" Tears fall down her perfect face. "Why does He let you do this? Why won't He tell you to stop?

It's not nihilism is there's really no point to anything.

Am I truly such a villain? Is it really a cage if it's the size of the world?" "Yes," said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.

looked straight at her. 'Donna, I think Edna

Un nombre bastante anticuado. Nos preguntábamos de dónde lo habrías sacado. Casi me atraganto con la comida.

what I call minor feelings: the racialized range of emotions that are negative, dysphoric, and therefore untelegenic, built from the sediments of everyday racial experience and the irritant of having one's perception of reality constantly questioned or dismissed.

Jess looked up. Was it possible he was hitting on her?

But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me Thy wring-earth right foot rock? lay a lionlimb against me? scan With darksome devouring eyes my bruised bones? and fan, O in turns of tempest, me heaped there; me frantic to avoid thee and flee? Why? That my chaff might fly; my grain lie, sheer and clear.

Ik sta op de rand der wereld en roep: 'Waar zijt Gij?' De echo antwoordt: 'Zijt gij? Gij?

Als u de mensheid hebt verlost, waarom mij dan niet - dat was toch in één moeite door gegaan?

Humans appear to have a need for certainty, a motivation to hold on to something rather than to question it. People with a high need for certainty are more prone to stereotypes than others and are less inclined to remember information that contradicts their stereotypes.3

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

I just tell you, and though I don't sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. There's your answer.

As soon as the child is born, the mother who has just brought him into the world must console him, quiet his crying, and lighten the burden of the existence she has given him. And in truth it is only fitting that the good father and the good mother, in trying to console their children, correct as best they can, and ease, the damage they have done by procreating them. Good God! Why then is man born? And why does he procreate? To console those he has given birth to for having been born?

in ogni attività, in ogni lavoro, è salutare di tanto in tanto mettere un punto interrogativo ad affermazioni che abbiamo sempre dato per scontate.

I've been married for a long time and there are days when I still wonder, 'Excuse me, but who is this man?

Ever have a day when you wonder what, if anything, is worth doing? Forget about doing anything well: I'm talking about simply meeting basic standards.

Stop now and always wonder. Press forward and tap the wonder.

Much of what keeps the ego's lies in place now is the fear of being different from the crowd, of stepping beyond convention and going against how most people think. Once there is less of a stigma around questioning your programming, because more people are not drinking the ego's Kool-Aid, people will awaken to the truth—to reality—much more easily.

Más terrible que morir es no saber para qué se vive.