Quotes About Doubt

Who of those born in future generations will believe this? I myself who saw it can hardly believe that such was possible.

Be confident, not certain

Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Why no!" I cried, astonished. "Adela marry! You might as well suspect a faded lettuce of falling in love.

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

Lila shook her head skeptically. She was trying to understand, we were both trying to understand, and understanding was something that we loved to do.

You can't leave me here to hope, when in reality you've already decided everything.

But her body, seated a few inches from mine on the wooden bench, had manifested no unease. Not even her voice, which had been sure and clear: no. Not a single sign that might lead me to think that she was lying. Thus I had no doubt. She was lying.

Fiz muitas coisas em minha vida, mas jamais convicta, sempre me senti um tanto descolada de minhas próprias ações.

de pequeña sabía que nos moríamos, siempre lo he sabido, pero nunca pensé que fuera a pasarme a mí, y ahora tampoco termino de creérmelo.

If she kept him next to her she was afraid of breaking him, if she pushed him too far away she was afraid of losing him.

Then I felt as if my thoughts were cut off in the middle, absorbing and yet defective, with an urgent need for verification, for development, yet without conviction, without faith in themselves.

Maybe I'm not so ugly, I thought, maybe I can't see myself.

Ahora la aterraba y la hacía sufrir la gruesa alianza que le brillaba en el anular. Incrédula, hizo un repaso de aquel día: la iglesia, el oficio religioso, la fiesta. Qué he hecho, pensó aturdida por el vino, qué es esta argolla de oro, este cero brillante dentro del que he metido el dedo.

that to trust in a God, a Jesus, the Holy Spirit—this last a completely superfluous entity, it was there only to make up a trinity, notoriously nobler than the mere binomial father-son—was the same thing as collecting trading cards while the city burns in the fires of hell.

You're not happy to be getting married?" I ventured. He looked out the window: there was lightning and thunder but still no rain. He said: "I was fine the way I was.

Eu nu cheltui o lira daca nu cred ca pot sa scot o suta.

I had too many worries and, whatever I did, the feeling of always being in the wrong.

Você se engana, a verdade é que tudo parece já feito e você não tem nenhum bom motivo para se esforçar. Sente apenas a culpa pelo que você é sem ter merecido.

No lo sé, es difícil dar una respuesta tajante que sea cierta

It torments you to know you were misunderstood, to not have risked yourself, and to wait.

Sicherheit erzeugt Angst vor dem Unsicheren.

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