Quotes About Doubt

The trouble with this country," the late John Berryman once told fellow poet James Dickey, "is that a man can live his entire life without knowing whether or not he is a coward.

Credo quia absurdum

We can't rely on anything. Except ourselves. Ludicrous responsibility devolves on us, overwhelms us. In every regard, right up the present, people always have relied on each other—or God.

Franz Kafka'n?n vakti zaman?nda aç?klad??? gibi: Ula??lacak bir amaç vard?r ama yol yoktur; karars?zl?klar?m?za, duraksamalar?m?za yol ad?n? takar?z.

It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know.

I felt for too long anyway that there was something creaky about this story. You needn't try to understand, but when all the material clues manage to confuse matters rather than clarify them, it means they've been faked … and everything, without exception, is fake in this case. It all creaked.

The committed man, whatever he is, makes me afraid, makes me bristle. I wonder if he is sincere. And, if he appears to me to be so, I wonder if he is intelligent.

I never believe anything until I get proof, replied Hemingway. But what I have got is flair! I have heard you say so, meekly responded his subordinate.

I doubt it. My lord smiled insufferably.

Damn it, he was in here with the door locked!' Stephen said. 'He can't have been stabbed'.

I should be astonished to learn that he regards me as anything other than a dowdy schoolgirl! Yes, I should be too,' agreed the Job's comforter on the other side of the table.

It was always uncertainty that i feared most.

Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. (Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures)

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer

You cannot tell me me.

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

The higher you climb the ladder, everyone is going to have a reason as to why you're there, why you're on TV, and they don't want to believe the fact you're in the working hard, fighting for storylines.

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

I think marriage works for some people, but I just don't think it could work for me. I don't see it.

I was at a point of asking God whether acting was what He really wanted me to do. Oprah Winfrey came to one of my workshops, and a couple of months later, she reached out to Uncle BeBe, who co-wrote 'Born For This.' Oprah told him she was interested in me for the role of Charity on 'Greenleaf' and asked him to help her contact me.