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Quotes About Doubt

maybe i just loved some of you. maybe not enough
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
It's a scene I've fantasized about for years. Yet, now that it's happening, a part of me sits in the audience, watching the actors say their lines, analyzing the blocking. I can't tell if this is a defense mechanism or my intuition warning me to beware.
~ Jody Gehrman
When women accuse men of wrongdoing, they are doubted; when they retract, they are believed. If they allege abuse, their word is suspect; if they retract an abuse allegation, their word suddenly becomes credible. One is prompted to ask: Why is women's word to be trusted only when it excuses and absolves men of responsibility for their violence against women?"' Quote from Jan Jordan
~ Jody Raphael
I'm a fucking coward." "Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better off.
~ Joe Abercrombie
If there was a God, the world seemed exactly the way it would be if there wasn't one.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You want a thing when you can't have it. When you get it you suddenly sprout doubts. Then when you think you might lose it you find you need it worse than ever.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Welcome to my life of constant doubt, anxiety and occasional sudden and unpredictable horror, Javre. I hope you enjoy your fucking visit.
~ Joe Abercrombie
That's the trouble with answers. They're never as exciting as the questions, somehow.
~ Joe Abercrombie
He'd done the right thing. Maybe. Or maybe there's no such thing.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You don't get it, god-bothered dude!
~ Ann Halam
No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
~ Ann Landers
Never has nostalgia held stronger sway; never has the belief in the redemptive possibilities of the future seemed so laughable.
~ Ann Marlowe
I love the Internet, or at least I used to, but it's not where you go for the truth.
~ Ann Napolitano
I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection, yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that I always feel revived, as by a new conviction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and, wanting these, I relapse into doubt, and too often into despondency.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church.
~ Ann Rinaldi
All that I am hangs by a thread tonight
~ Anna Akhmatova
I didn't officially live with him and wasn't officially committed to him. If we were in a proper relationship and I did live with him and was officially committed to him, the first thing I would have to do would be to leave.
~ Anna Burns
If we were in a proper relationship and I did live with him and was officially committed to him, first thing I would have to do would be to leave.
~ Anna Burns
She admonished him, saying 'I think I hate you,' which meant she didn't because 'I think I hate you' is the same as 'probably I hate you', which is the same as 'I don't know if I hate you', which is the same as 'I don't hate you, oh my God, my love, I love you, still love you, always, always have I loved you and never have I stopped loving you'.
~ Anna Burns
Okay,' I said. 'So if I were to stop walking-while-reading, and hands in pockets, and little night torches, and instead looked right and left and right again for dangerous, unscrupulous forces, does that mean I'll end up happy?' 'It's not about being happy,' he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I've ever heard.
~ Anna Burns
I didn't officially live with him and wasn't officially committed to him. If we were in a proper relationship and I did live with him and was officially committed to him, first thing I would have to do would be to leave.
~ Anna Burns
You promise to stop if I say so?" she asked doubtfully, even while she lay down. "I promise. Though never trust anything a man tells you when he's got his head between your legs.
~ Anna Campbell
When God breaks in, the only thing you can do is believe it or not. YOu cannot ask for a receipt of the transaction or a sign for the dubious. God does not offer to cover your backside.
~ Anna Carter Florence