Quotes About Doubt

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

In the next few minutes, both of them sensed the false cheerfulness that came from trying to reassure the other in the face of real doubts. But they each were still glad they ahd someone to be falsely cheerful for.

It would seem logical to pray to the devil, but no thief would dare do so seriously. To come to terms with him would be to commit oneself too deeply. He is too opposed to God, who, we know, is the final victor. A murderer himself would not dare pray to the devil.

All i know is that the world exists. But only god himself knows whether He exists.

Tu veux savoir ce qu'il faut faire, et tu ne connais pas seulement le monde où tu vis. Tu comprends que quelque chose est contre toi, et tu ne sais pas quoi.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Kinnaman found that 36% of young adults with a Christian background said that they didn't feel they could "ask my most pressing life questions in church.

He was what men called a religious man, which in his case meant he was a superstitious man. There was never a man less Christian; there was never one who made a greater show of piety.

Her fault had been in trying to keep it as tight as a mistress might. All a wife needed was a little more subtlety, and it had taken her two years of doubts and nightmares to realize this. Let him wander away from her, let him dally with others--it would but be to compare them with his incomparable queen.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Elle flotte, elle hésite; en un mot, elle est femme." "(She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she's a woman.)

Day by day, month by month, doubt by doubt, law and order became fascism; education, constraint; work, alienation; revolution, mere sport; leisure, a privilege of class; marijuana, a harmless weed; family, a stifling hothouse; affluence, oppression; success, a social disease; sex, an innocent pastime; youth, a permanent tribunal; maturity, the new senility; discipline, an attack on personality; Christianity... and the West... and white skin...

The only thing I'm sure of is that one can't be a complete unbeliever. That would be to admit to nothingness. Absolute zero doesn't exist.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

He was trying to decide if she was pretty. If you had to think about it, he guessed the answer was no.

It is true, I do expect bad things rather than good, and even when they are good I worry about when they will stop being good.

The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying, "Perhaps it's all for the best," when they are perfectly dead sure it's not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia.

What sort of men?" "They don't believe in God, but they have just as much faith in humanity as we do.