Quotes About Doubt

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

Dear God, I am only what you made me and I appreciate everything that you gave me, but like, I don't want to do it any more, sort of lost sight of what I'm doing it for.

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

You know, what if everybody's wrong in life? And so you have to live your life yourself.

My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.

If you spend your life living in fear or doubt, you will never actually live life, and will only be coexisting with the rest of the world.

Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.

Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

My so-called faith went up in flames Till I believed in all your lies, For the life of me I don't know why. They got you wrong , You're not that strong. I don't belong here!

I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

It's good to have some certainty in life, even if it's only that I'm in deep trouble.

Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life.

I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure?

Human science is an uncertain guess.

It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.