Quotes About Doubt

Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl

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

I seriously doubt whether anyone will be interested in this dribble

What if I shave? he said. I look much better when I'm shaved. My cousin will vouch for that—do I not look almost handsome when I shave, Edward? He didn't wait for the duke's reply but turned earnestly back to Prudence. Do you think you could marry me if I shaved?

You know your fear is both false and illogical, but you fear it anyway.

I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.

Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, I hate you, God. That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.

But it is fantasy to think that successful writers do not have these bored, defeated hours, these hours of deep insecurity when one feels as small and jumpy as a water bug. They do. But they also often feel a great sense of amazement that they get to write, and they know that this is what they want to do for the rest of their lives.

You may have gotten into the habit of doubting that voice that was telling you quite clearly what was really going on. It is essential you get that back.

I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good enough at it...

To paraphrase Paul Tillich, the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.

do you still believe that I am the Resurrection and the Life? Even when you don't get what you want? Even when nothing makes sense?

She walked to the front door. 'Hello?' 'Hello,' a woman's voice said. 'Are you a Witness?' 'I swear to God I didn't see a thing.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.

she is willing to try anything that affords you the opportunity to shake up the Etch A Sketch of everything you suppose is true, a chance to question all your secret opinions: that this thing is good, that one is bad; that this person is better, that one is worse.

I have to. I've changed my mind so often." Neither of us spoke for a minute. "That's the worst reason to do something," I said.

There's nothing wrong in doubting. It sometimes leads to greater faith.

The truth deals only one wound, but suspicions a thousand.

She despised cowardice, and yet here she was on the brink of it herself.

It was the unknown that paralyzed the will to fight.

When you trust no one and believe in nothing, you are vulnerable to anything, and yet in some ways also to nothing. He was still learning what it was to belong irrevocably, not to be able to walk away because the ties are too deep, too woven into who you are, who you want and need to be, where all that is comfortable and precious resides.

And I realized that I'd tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.