Quotes About Doubt

Talking about medicine, I told him with bitterness about my growing cynicism about what I could do, and he said, "No, we don't cure. I never bought that either. I went through the same cynicism—all that training, and then this helplessness. And yet, in spite of all our doubt, we can give something. Not cure, no. What sustains us is when we find a way to be compassionate, to love. And the most loving thing we do is to be with a patient, like you are being with me.

Sabrina: "But you don't believe in marriage." Linus: "Yes, I do. It's why I've never married.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Bonhoeffer did not expect his life to be a tidy edifice of perfection.

All generalizations are questionable.

An affair? Jeff?" "You think it's beyond him?" "No, I just can't imagine him working up enough emotion or blood flow to get hard.

He took a long time to answer. "I asked which of her brothers had fathered the baby. She told me it could have been either.

you're reluctant

Thatcher looked over to see if there was an innuendo behind the question

There were others like her. Of course there were. How had she ever thought there would not be?

Nonetheless, it left him with a terrible doubt, a fear that inhabited every scene.

This was partly why she believed what she had been told:

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Perhaps sometimes we just can't do this; it means being prepared to be undone, and we just don't know if we are ready to put ourselves back together again

We have to hesitate, to temper the strength of our tendencies with doubt; to waver when we are sure, or even because we are sure.

Dear Lord, have you brought me all this way just to stop? Why, why, was I allowed to search so long, to come so near?

Dear Lord, have you brought me all this way to stop? Why, why, was I allowed to search so long, to come so near?

Oh I don't know about that. - The Manteceros

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

I get poked and prodded like this every morning. I'm like a piece of meat unearthed from the back of the fridge, suspect until proven otherwise.

It always seemed like a snake to him, his anxiety. Waiting just out of sight, ready to slither up his spine, hissing its familiar taunt: "You aren't where you should be. Something bad is going to happen because you aren't where you should be.

Don't believe everything you hear

Mom always says that doubt is just another way of expressing faith.

counted because things in my life had a way of disappearing on me, and I'd learned not to trust what I thought was there. What