Quotes About Questioning

But if people received their just portion of misfortune, what had she done to bring her troubles on herself?

He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along --trying to wound his faith in order to test it--and I was just another stone in the way of his God.

I'm not God. --Then find someone who is, man.

I]n the last resort, man should not ask What is the meaning of my life? but should realize that he himself is being questioned. Life is putting its problems to him, and it is up to him to respond to these questions by being responsible; he can only answer to life by answering for his life.

el hombre no debería cuestionarse sobre el sentido de la vida, sino comprender que la vida le interroga a él. En otras palabras, la vida pregunta por el hombre, cuestiona al hombre, y éste contesta de una única manera: respondiendo de su propia vida y con su propia vida.

We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly.

Tenemos que dejar de hacernos preguntas sobre el significado de la vida y, en vez de ello, pensar en nosotros como en seres a quienes la vida les inquiriera continua e incesantemente.

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly.

did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human

U]ltimately it is not up to man to ask about the meaning of his life. Instead, man must be understood as someone who is asked; that is, life itself asks him, and he has to answer—his existence has to respond.

Sic nos in sceptra reponis?

Turne, tot incassum fusos patiere labores et tua Dardaniis transcribi sceptra colonis?

Can anger so fierce stir the hearts of the dwellers in heaven?

I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?

Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?

Her eyes seemed to question, to commiserate, to be, for a second, love itself.

It was the stupidity of virility that impressed me--& how, having made those convenient railway lines of convention, the lusts speed along them unquestioning.

Here are the dead poets, still musing, still pondering, still questioning the meaning of existence.

What then? Who then?' she said. 'Thirty-six; in a motor car; a woman. Yes, but a million other things as well.

If truth is not to be found on the shelves of the British Museum, where, I asked myself, picking up a notebook and a pencil, is truth?

What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years.