Quotes About Doubt

You can be in the league and still feel like you're not in the league. That was the point I was at when I left Toronto.

Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?

If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

In theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don't want to start sinking slowly... I want to learn, blah blah blah. Then I think about actually going and sitting in classes and, man, it sounds terrible.

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I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.

Just as nothing produces paralyzing apathy like doubt and resignation, nothing produces cleverness like staring down a crisis with a lionhearted snarl.

diagrammed the motor in the sand while his friend watched, unsure of what to think. After all, such a machine was theoretically impossible. In fact, seven years earlier, his professor at a college in Austria ridiculed him for suggesting that direct current generators could

The mind is a wild liar and I don't trust much in it that I find there.

It would be a very good thing if occasionally I thought I knew what I was doing.

But as I spoke to him, all I could feel was love. That was ridiculous. And I am deeply, deeply suspicious of it.

Because I thought it was still possible everything was all right. Why did I think that? Because I had not heard otherwise. I was in the middle of a mystery.

I wonder why that is. I wonder why anything is.

terror, de modo que ninguna de las dos

Moral Psychology is a manifestation in the philosophical discipline of ethical nihilism.

Ginzo inclined his head and, without uttering a single word, returned to his room in the main house. For a while he just stood there thinking, but eventually he uttered a single sentence: "That man's lying." With that, he opened his suitcase and took out a blank telegram. After a few moments, he began to write. KATSUKO DEAD. SEND KINDAICHI. He addressed it to his own wife, then set out for the K—town post office.

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

Ja, vem var hon, att hon kunde våga påstå, att allt det här spektaklet med Karl-Artur, det var ingenting? Det var inte samvetskval, det var inte någon straffdom, det var just jämnt ingenting.