Quotes About Doubt

The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.

Logic is doubtless unshakable, but it cannot withstand a man who wants to go on living.

Asking questions were the most important thing.

Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?

Guilt is never to be doubted.

What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.

I waver, continually fly to the summit of the mountain, but cannot stay up there for more than a moment. Others waver too, but in lower regions, with greater strength; if they are in danger of falling, they are caught up by the kinsman who walks beside them for that purpose. But I waver on the heights; it is not death, alas, but the eternal torments of dying.

to be sure, all that pointless standing about and waiting day after day always starting all over again without any prospect of change, will wear a man down and make him doubtful, and ultimately incapable of anything but that despairing standing about.

Always asking the doctor for the impossible. They've lost their old faith; the priest sits home and picks his vestments to pieces, one after another; but the doctor is supposed to accomplish everything with his gentle, surgical hands.

Scratch your flesh raw between your toes, but you won't find the answer.

No,' said the priest, 'we must not accept everything is true, we must only accept it is necessary.' 'A dismal thought,' said K., 'it makes untruth into a universal principle.

There are possibilities for me, certainly, but under what stone do they lie?

depois, comi o meu jantar de vegetariano, fiquei satisfeito com a minha digestão e tive algumas apreensões quanto a saber se a minha vida bastaria para toda a duração da minha vida.

Then, at the last moment, I am forced to admit to myself that I was right after all, and that it was really impossible to go down into the burrow without exposing the thing I love best, for a little while at least, to all my enemies, on the ground, in the trees, in the air.

On the other hand, there are also dark moments, such as everyone has, when you think you've achieved nothing at all, when it seems that the only trials to come to a good end are those that were determined to have a good end from the start and would do so without any help, while all the others are lost despite all the running to and fro, all the effort, all the little, apparent successes that gave such joy.

36. Önceleri sorular?ma neden cevap alamad???m? anlayam?yordum, ÅŸimdiyse soru sorabileceÄŸime nas?l inanabildiÄŸimi anlayam?yorum. Ama gerçekte inanm?yordum ki, soruyordum sadece.

Sou de pedra. Sou a minha própria pedra tumular, sem nenhum interstício para a dúvida ou para a fé, para o amor ou para a repulsa, para a coragem ou para a angústia, em particular ou em geral; só uma vaga esperança vive, mas à maneira das inscrições funerárias.

Quién sabe lo que le espera al lado? Esto está lleno de oportunidades. Sólo que, sin lugar a dudas, hay oportunidades que en cierta manera son demasiado buenas para ser aprovechadas. Hay cosas que no fracasan por nada más que por sí mismas

One stands painfully pinned against the wall, fearfully lowers one's eyes to see the hand that pins and with a new pain that makes one forget the old, recognizes one's own crooked hand, which holds you with a strength it never had for good work. One raises one's head, again feels the first pain, again lowers one's eyes and this up and down never ceases.

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family.

There are also dark moments, such as everyone has, when you think you've achieved nothing at all, when it seems that the only trials to come to a good end are those that were determined to have a good end from the start and would do so without any help, while all the others are lost despite all the running to and fro, all the effort, all the little, apparent successes that gave such joy. Then you no longer feel very sure of anything.

If the doorkeeper sees clearly, one might have doubts about that, but if the doorkeeper is deceived, the deception must necessarily carry over to the man. In that case, teh doorkeeper is indeed no deceiver, but is so simpleminded that he should be dismissed immediately from service. You have to realize that the state of deception in which the doorkeeper finds himself doesn't harm him but harms the man a thousandfold.

I don't agree with that opinion...for if you accept it, you have to consider everything the doorkeeper says as true. But you've already proved conclusively that that's not possible. No, said the priest, you don't have to consider everything true, you just have to consider it necessary. A depressing opinion, said K. Lies are made into a universal system

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