Quotes About Doubt

I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards.

somewhere in his murkiest depths, he wasn't so much afraid of being left again as condemning someone else to second best.

Just do me a favor and remember one thing,' he says, and I can see he's trying not to be too typically religious. 'Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.

tried praying for him ...but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Don't ask me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn't summon the strength to pray for it.

God never says anything. You think you're the only one he never answers?

When reason fails, the devil helps!

I don't believe this, Sister Maria muttered. It can't be, because sure enough, when Liesel stepped forward and presented her hands, Ludwig Schmeikl was all over them, rusting by the moment.

But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear?

For some reason, dying men always ask questions they know the answer to. Perhaps it's so they can die being right.

I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. But it's not your job to understand. That's me who answers. God never says anything. Tou think you're the only one he never answers?

Raskolnikov once said: "When reason fails, the devil helps!

Amen,' I say, delayed, and now, like many of these people, I pray for the first time in years.

Y él lo había creído, porque entonces era verdad, era verdad hasta que se había ido acercando la hora de la verdad

I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Emma, I want to tell you something about being right: being right is much harder than on a person than being wrong.

You may have noticed that when I do manage to care, I'm a pessimist.

I think I'm losing my bottle. I think I'm going tonto.

I was soon wondering if I would ever again be able to attend a mass assemblage without my mind starting to play tricks on me. It wasn't like the last occasion, when I became gradually immersed in the logistical challenge of gassing the audience. No.

The sun was looking down on this, but not quite sincerely.

Terror, perhaps, is always a confession of illegitimacy.

You never gave me an answer,' Anna said. "Which do you think I am, insane or a tramp?' 'Do you want to see me again?' Joe asked. 'Yes.' 'Then you must be insane.

You think we're going to pay for this?" "A thousand times." "Why?" Arkady asked. "Because God is such a bastard, He will take you away from me.

What we come across is only this - various tunings of thinking. Doubt and despair, on the one hand, blind obsession by untested principles, on the other, conflict with one another. Fear and anxiety are mixed with hope and confidence. Often and widely, it looks as though thinking were a kind of reasoning conception and calculation completely free of any kind of tuning. But even the coldness of calculation, even the prosaic sobriety of planning are traits of an attunement.

sure of anything right now. I'm just very tired.