Quotes About Questioning

I'm sorry, was this chicken seasoned with molten lava?

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

Having God is having someone to rage against," she said over coffee. "Where else will I go with that? God is strong enough to take it, like a strong parent. My railing is not only against God, but also against man. Where was God? Where was man?

He began to ask me questions, as though he had learned to remind himself to do so, and I wondered what or who had taught him that lesson, which many people never learn.

She scraped her spoon around the bottom of the honey jar. She was aware, she said, that this was also a cultural malaise, but it had invaded her inner world to the extent that she felt herself summed up, and was beginning to question the point of continuing to exist day in and day out when 'Anne's life' just about covered it.

Why do you play at being a woman?

It was with her, after all, that his identity had been forged: if she no longer recognised him, then who was he?

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

I value above all the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically, without answers. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful.

Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are liable to hit out and feel insulted. You know it is absolutely without proof, yet people still commit themselves totally to this belief. They cannot refute it because it is so central to their lives.

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'How did I get here?'

You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I have this couch and I have this life and... is this going to be my prison?

It's funny, because when you tell people you've stopped drinking, there's an automatic reaction. People ask, 'Was it a lifestyle choice or were you waking up in a skip?'

Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.

I thought maybe I was bisexual.

For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'

I'm so grateful for every day and every moment, I ask myself what I did to deserve this blessing?

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.

If you've grown up in a church, college is a time you may branch away from that.

It was very clear that I had breast cancer. From a man's perspective, I'm thinking, 'Why me?'