Quotes About Doubt

He was too perfect, so I had to poke at it. Our relationship worked too well, so I had to see if I could break it. Not really break it, but see how far it would bend. I had to test it, because what good was something that couldn't be tested?

I couldn't decide if it was a new orgasm, or if it was just an extra ending for the first one.

Gdy nÄ™kajÄ… ciÄ™ wÄ…tpliwoÅ›ci, we? gÅ'Ä™boki oddech i rób swoje. Od lat kierowaÅ'am siÄ™ tÄ… zasadÄ…. SÅ'yszaÅ'am gorsze, naprawdÄ™.

That was the real danger with not being monogamous. It wasn't really the sex, though that bugged me a lot. It was the fact that it meant the other person wasn't satisfied, that they were still looking. If you're still looking, sometimes you find it, whatever it is.

Was that an insult?' 'If you have to ask, then indeedy-do, it was.

Suspicion is healthy. It'll keep you alive.

When he first told me, I'd been convinced I'd be the one that would die; now I wasn't so sure, maybe I would win. Maybe I could call Donna and the kids and tell them . . . Tell them what? That their family was destroyed because Edward and I had had the ultimate guy moment and I was the better man?

If you don't like the teaching and you don't like the research – why are you doing this?" "Because it's what I thought I wanted six years ago." … Behind him, I could see my bookshelves, crammed with monographs and reference works, all the effluvia of the last six years. "If I don't do this, what do I do?"(437-438)

First, Whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed.

Si alguien duda de su veracidad, o piensa que no es posible que un hombre se engañe a sí mismo de este modo,—debo aconsejarle que por un momento se remita a sus propias reflexiones; y entonces podré aventurarme a poner por testigo de mis aseveraciones a su propio corazón'.

You can think a thing over many times and still have no idea how you'll answer the question, if ever it's asked.

It's a funny things about human nature. Nobody ever wonders why they've got a healthy brother or a perfect kiddie. Anything goes wrong, though, we soon start why, oh why...

I stand on the edge of a cliff, wondering if I'm going to fall or jump.

Oh, wait a minute—when have I seen this before? Got another girlfriend, Daddy? Ready for round two in divorce court? Don't forget to line up a good shrink for Emma; she thinks you're a god.

Youth does not inspire confidence, in life or in stories

Religion has proved to be the refuge of so many scoundrels, one begins by doubting, and waits to be proven wrong. [The Language of Bees, chapter 30]

Oh, I don't believe in anything. I especially don't believe in astrology. Know why?" "Why?" "Because I'm a Saggitarius, and every Sagittarius knows astrology is a lot of hooey.

For years one has to put up with the feeling that people do not care, really care, about one; then one day with growing alarm, one realizes that it is God who does not care; and not merely that he does not care, he does not care one way or the other.

Aid my disillusionment, my friend!

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

What's her name? Claire, what's her name?

I know people who believe in ghosts but don't believe in themselves. It's kind of sad. Okay you don't think you'll ever make it as a musician, but last night you saw a translucent caveman.

The sad truth is, they should never trust me.