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Quotes About Doubt

Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Of course, when you love the unwell, you constantly have to ask yourself: Do I love her, or her illness? Am I her lover or her healer?
~ Hanif Kureishi
The questions had become: What can we forgive in others? How far do they have to go before we lose faith in them?
~ Hanif Kureishi
He felt like a criminal, though the only laws he'd broken were his own, and he wasn't sure which ones they were.
~ Hanif Kureishi
God is more than an emotional experience. Doubts are normal, Grant. There's nothing wrong with examining your faith." "I didn't just examine it, I think I lost it." "I've felt that way before but God's faithfulness isn't dependent on you.
~ Hannah Alexander
On the contrary, anyone speaking or writing about concentration camps is still regarded as suspect; and if the speaker has resolutely returned to the world of the living, he himself is often assailed by doubts with regard to his own truthfulness, as though he had mistaken a nightmare for reality.
~ Hannah Arendt
Much more reliable will be the doubters and skeptics, not because skepticism is good or doubting wholesome, but because they are used to examine things and to make up their own minds. Best of all will be those who know only one thing for certain: that whatever else happens, as long as we live we shall have to live together with ourselves.
~ Hannah Arendt
it is rare to meet people who believe they possess the truth; instead, we are constantly confronted by those who are sure that they are right.
~ Hannah Arendt
Can life be said to exist at all?
~ Hannah Arendt
Few men are true masters over their women. In truth, I would eye with suspicion any woman who acts as if that is the truth. Either she lies, or she is so dull-witted or weak-spirited that she will make you a tedious wife.
~ Hannah Howell
do not know if he means to use that sword to help us or to prod us into the hands of our enemies. The Scotsman could well be one of those DeVeau hirelings." Guy shook
~ Hannah Howell
He sounded genuine, but Myron knew that meant nothing. People were amazing liars.
~ Harlan Coben
but when in doubt, you might as well keep an open mind.
~ Harlan Coben
We started down the tunnel. I wondered how something like this had been built. No way it passed Kasselton code. Did Lizzy Sobek hire construction workers? I doubted it. Did volunteers work on it? Did those "chosen" by the Abeona Shelter build this tunnel? Maybe. Maybe my father helped build it. But
~ Harlan Coben
Hope she's not getting Gloria." "Why?" "She kinda looks like a white version of me," Jake said. "Only with a heavier beard.
~ Harlan Coben
Myron looked a question at Esperanza.
~ Harlan Coben
You seem like a decent investigator, Muse. But every once in a while, your naïveté is absolutely startling." Her
~ Harlan Coben
Hey, come on, Myron, that was just talk." Ned tried to smile his way out of it, but Myron kept his face stern. "It didn't mean anything.
~ Harlan Coben
I don't do the wait-and-worry wife well." "Nice alliteration. The two D's and then all those W's.
~ Harlan Coben
Shaved Head said nothing. "What's going on here?" I asked. "Why was Rachel shot?" "I don't know." "I don't believe you," I said. "Believe what you will. These are the risks we all take." "What
~ Harlan Coben
It isn't about guilt. You had a doubt. You had your head turned. You wondered about the what-if. You're not the first person to feel these things. You either find your way through it or you don't. But in the end, Corinne didn't give you that chance. She chose to trick you and live a lie. I'm not defending or condemning you. Every marriage is its own story. But you didn't see the light. You had someone shine a flashlight in your eyes." "Maybe
~ Harlan Coben
I'm not casting any aspersions here." "Okay.
~ Harlan Coben
Any video of the killer?" "I can't tell you more." "I would say, 'can't or won't,' but that's such a hoary cliché." She
~ Harlan Coben
I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.
~ Bridget Fonda