Quotes About Doubt

People would believe almost any awful thing their private devil told them.

Don't believe everything you hear today

It did no good to tell himself that it was all in his head if it went on happening anyway. His belief was not required; his disbelief of was no consequence.

And you're not an envoy from the lord?" "You're not an angel?" "Nope. Just a librarian." Aw, well, she said, "That's close enough for me." ~Full Throttle by Joe Hill

one teebs? You mean tablespoon?" "I don't know.

I'm not questioning your bravery. I'm questioning your intelligence.

It'll always bother you, wondering what you missed out on," Merrin said now. "That's how men are. I'm just being practical. I'm not waiting to get married to you so I can fight through your midlife affair with our babysitter. I'm not going to be the reason for your regrets.

Too many people die in hospitals, and if you can't be helped, you have to wonder why.

Sometimes Wayne felt that the world had been sliding apart beneath his feet for years. He was still waiting for it to pull him down, to bury him at last.

She had learned from Jakob to think of people who spoke of blessings and faith as simple and a little infirm. People who thought things happened for a reason were to be pitied. Such folk had given up their curiosity about the universe for a comforting children's story.

Fuck it fuck it fuck it fuck it. They were perhaps the only true words of prayer she had ever been able to utter with all her heart.

I was so scared of doing the wrong thing I hardly ever did the right thing." Vic

Because there is no God. Your prayers are whispers to an empty room.

They are both silent, doubt and grief and fury scuttling between them like beetles in search of a meal. Tetsuo and the girl stare at each other with such deep familiarity that Key feels forgotten, alone—almost ashamed of the dreams that have kept her alive for a decade. They have never felt so hopeless, or so false. "Her name is Key," Tetsuo says, in something like defeat. He turns away, though he makes no move to leave. "She will be your new caretaker.

Max almost needed it to be true, for vampires to be real, because the other possibility- that their father was, and always had been, in the grip of a psychotic fantasy- was too awful, too overwhelming.

Sometimes, the things They say, the laws They make, the way the world spins doesn't make any sense at all... Which is exactly why you have to ask "Why?" and keep on asking until you get the TRUTH...

Faith, unaccompanied by rigorous skepticism, is a recipe for myopia and foolishness.

The last four days where everything has finally made some sense. And why is she so ready to throw this away? Because. Because eventually every relationship she's been in has turned to shit. Eventually she ends up screwing everything up. So maybe it's better to leave now before people's feelings get hurt.

the only thing you are sure of is that you aren't sure of anything any more.

Faccio solo finta di essere sfacciata. In realtà me la faccio addosso dalla paura. Questa cena fuori mi rende confusa. Non so se voglio davvero una storia lunga, o solo una scopata veloce. E tu?

Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?" "No sir." "That bothers me.

I'm scared," he said. "Dad's face—" "Listen to me," Kale said. "That wasn't Dad." Trig stared at him. "That was something else. We know what Dad was like.

It is safer with me.""Forget it,"I said. "I'm still not going in.""Then you are being very stupid.""I got twenty-two hundred on my SATs,"I said. "How stupid is that?""Stupid enough not to realize when someone cares about you.""Meaning what, exactly?"She looked at me. "What do you think it means?

I was going into shock. The pain wasn't getting any better, and I thought that I would probably black out before I found out how this was going to end. Just as well—I was never particularly good at finishing things.