Quotes About Doubt

There has got to be a point that exists somewhere, when a rational person just has to shake his head and say: 'You know what? Maybe all the crack-pots are right!'

I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving myself. So instead, what I'm going to do is give my life to you.

The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt.

No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.

He is also wary of people who think they know the path.

He though does not always have faith.

Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.

In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.

Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.

No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.

The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

I suffer from the sense that everything good in my life is about to go away.

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.

You really get tired in one area of your life, and then you start questioning your whole existence.

A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.

His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.