Quotes About Doubt

One of his sayings is, 'When the walls fall down, all we have left is the enemy within.

Because consciousness is ultimately a matter of faith," James said

It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.

Funny thing about rumors," Sebastian said softly. "It doesn't matter if they're true or false, only that people believe them.

Six turns." A more superstitious man might have taken that for a bad omen. Tanner only considered himself half-superstitious. He didn't believe in the good ones.

I dutifully pray, but I faithlessly doubt. Forgive my unbelief; override my unbelief.

Jesus, forgive me for ever thinking that you've forgotten about me, don't really care about me, or have even abandoned me. I confess that sometimes, especially when life seems the hardest, loneliest, most unfair, and most broken, I entertain these foolish, unfounded, disbelieving notions.

Nobody, Nobody can be sure they're always right. The ones who are fullest of themselves that way Are the emptiest vessels.

How am I to keep on praising gods If they keep disappointing me, and never Match the good on my side with their good?

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.

When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic

For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

I worry all the time that I'm going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she'll remember them.

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

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.

One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.