Quotes About Doubt

In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

People thought I was this doll that came to life, so I would have different people just treating me very strangely as far as I was concerned. They wanted to see if I was real.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'

If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?

Sometimes I don't feel like the person that I'm supposed to be. I don't feel like I deserve any of this.

The Warrior of the Light knows that everyone is afraid of everyone else.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.

Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.

I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.

That's the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.

Fire the doubters out of your life.

A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

Everything in your life might be good, but there's still this notion that everything is not going to be okay, that there's more pain and suffering to come down the road.

Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

The Christianity that had come in my life as a child was all this idea that you're never going to see God. It's like hypocrisy, in a way.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

There were [in 21] all those times in my life that I didn't know this was going to happen. I didn't know if anybody was going to care about our music.