Quotes About Doubt

Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped.

I wasn't having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.

He ran the back of his hand up her cheek, with the pretense of wiping away sweat. Do you think you could ever love me? I don't think so. Because I'm not good enough. It's not like that. Because I'm not smart. No. Because you couldn't love me. Because I couldn't love you.

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?

She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.

and when is enough proof enough?

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

If god exists, he is not to be believed in.

He looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? DO we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?

Can't you even tell me if I'm on the right track? Buckminster purred, and Dad shrugged his shoulders again. But if you don't tell me anything, how can I ever be right? He circled something in an article and said, Another way of looking at it would be, how could you ever be wrong?

I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

She would say to him, "But you are no priest." And he would say, "I am today." And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love.

And you can't force someone to believe, not even with better and louder and more virtuous arguments, not even with irrefutable evidence

There's nothing that could convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. But there is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to.

This is the lesson we learned from everything that happened -- there is no God. It took all of the hidden faces for Him to prove this to us. What if it was a challenge of your faith? I said. I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this. What if it was not in His power? I could not believe in a God that could not stop what happened. What if it was man and not God that did all of this? I do not believe in man, either.

What if it was man and not God that did all of this? I do not believe in man, either.

Its so painful to think, and tell me what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever get me?

D'après toi, pourquoi es-tu ici, Oskar ? - Je suis ici, docteur, parce que maman est inquiète que la vie me mette devant des difficultés insurmontables. - Est-ce qu'elle a raison de s'inquiéter ? - Pas vraiment. La vie est une difficulté insurmontable.

Oskar: I'm God! Thomas: You're an atheist. Oskar: I don't exist!

if I had an answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect that she was not falling in love at all, bt doing something much more ordinary.

Siguranta si pace la adapost de ce? - Nu stiu. Siguranta si pace la adapost de ne-siguranta si de ne-pace.

She was unhappy, although unconvinced that her unhappiness wouldn't be someone else's happiness. She felt unfulfilled desire—profound amounts of it—but presumably so did every other married and unmarried person. She wanted more, but didn't know if there was more to be found. Not knowing used to feel inspiring. It felt like faith. Now it felt agnostic. Like not knowing.

I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.