Quotes About Doubt

Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.

Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

I'm not one of those people who write all the time. Sometimes I'll go several months without writing anything. I'll sometimes second guess myself and wonder if I'll ever write another song.

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

because the most terrible emotional anguish known to humans is not knowing.

I had feared to be presumptuous; of building up a fairyland out of dreams; of yielding to my imagination rather than to my good sense. And yet, deep down in some inner consciousness, a faint insidious hope had whispered to itself that if I showed myself worthy, perhaps-perhaps- And now perhaps had become reality, and all doubt and mistrust a vanished dream.

That's why I ask." "What

All very well for you religious chaps to talk so, said Larry, but I'll turn a shilling when I can. I don't believe in religion,for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

Well, and what was there in that?--Who ever hung his hopes upon so frail a twig?

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

Oh, Youth may listen patiently, While sad Experience tells her tale, But Doubt sits smiling in his eye, For ardent Hope will still prevail! He hears how feeble Pleasure dies, By guilt destroyed, and pain and woe; He turns to Hope—and she replies, "Believe it not-it is not so!

I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.

Sunt obiÈ™nuit? s? nu fiu luat? în serios.

Because still, in spite of everything, I have not enough faith in God. He has given me so much - which I certainly do not deserve - and I still do so much that is wrong every day.

It's twice as hard for us young people to hold on to our opinions at a time when ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when the worst side of human nature predominates, when everyone has come to doubt truth, justice and God.

Ya no me atrevo a hacer nada, porque tengo miedo de que esté prohibido".

Nou?, tinerilor, ne este de dou? ori mai greu s? ne susÈ›inem opiniile într-o vreme în care tot ce înseamn? idealism e distrus È™i zdrobit, în care oamenii îÈ™i arat? partea cea mai urât?, în care se pun sub semnul îndoielii adev?rul, justiÈ›ia È™i Dumnezeu.