Quotes About Doubt

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.

Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.

A frightening possibility suddenly occurred to him: maybe sometimes things didn't just go wrong and then stop; maybe sometimes they just kept going wronger and wronger until everything was totally fucked up.

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

Hadn't somebody said that perfect paranoia and perfect awareness were the same thing?

It's just that if there's a God, he's doing a piss poor job.

Sure I'd had second thoughts. But thoughts are not choices.

Being ninety-five percent sure isn't a hundred.

Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or believe. Me, I don't believe in God. But if i saw him, I would. I wouldn't just go around saying, Jesus, that was a great special effect. The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

There ain't no power in heaven or on earth that can stop people from thinkin the worst when they want to.

Winnie, but I don't believe in sin." He smiled. It was a benevolent smile. Also unpleasant: sheep lips, wolf teeth. "That's fine. But sin believes in you.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

Having a breakdown was like breaking a vase and then gluing it back together. You could never trust yourself to handle that vase again with any surety. You couldn't put a flower in it because flowers need water and water might dissolve the glue. Am I crazy, then?

Belief is a high hurdle to get over and I think it's even higher for smart people. Smart people know a lot, and maybe that makes them think they know everything.

But grownups were always in a turmoil, every possible action muddied over by thoughts of the consequences, by self-doubt, by selfimage, by feelings of love and responsibility. Every possible choice seemed to have drawbacks, and sometimes he didn't understand why the drawbacks were drawbacks. It was very hard.

Hello, Not-There," Piper said. Not-There was her private name for God just lately. Earlier in the fall it had been The Great Maybe. During the summer, it had been The Omnipotent Could-Be.

I always wondered about growing up. I bet it's mostly lies.

the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.

I thought you were good, but you are not good. You are just a lying old dirty birdie.

Because there really is a second world. It exists because people refuse to believe it's there.

Never trust anything a fiction writer says about himself.

To really meet the mystery, we must be uncertain.

today's my life and i feel that " Every question have an answer but sometime that answer again becomes a question....