Quotes About Questioning

Oh Sverige, Sverige du Gamla och Fria Varför dödar dina söner mig?

One question keeps troubling me: Why?. . . The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human query. By nature, we're curious. We want to know.

There has always been philosophical speculation on the question, What if there were no God? Keller thinks as he walks through the slush. But no one has really asked, much less answered, the question, What if there were no Satan?

All this and the wine's coming in and out, and by the time the waiters set the espressos down Callan's about half in the bag. He watches Calabrese take a long sip from an espresso cup. Then the boss says, 'Tell me why I shouldn't kill you.'  One motherfuck of an essay question. 

Do I have a concussion?" "I don't know," she says. "Is my nose broken?" "And you have a concussion," she says.

You have any questions, come to me, but don't have any questions. Are there any questions?

Well, god damn it," Cayzer said. "Sometimes I don't know if I was stupid all my life or if I'm just getting stupid with old age. Come on along, you can ask them yourself.

The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.

I believe in doubt. I believe in keeping clear of believers.

Then why were you

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

What are we doing here, that is the question.

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

I think the key is to realize that life is temporary and spending life questioning life is a waste of time.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

When we are not sure, we are alive.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.