Quotes About Doubt

This isn't true, Patty says. You'll find someone. You just can't be afraid to take a risk. What is she talking about? I do nothing but take risks. I'm trying to keep a psychopath from killing again. Isn't that enough? I have to have a ring on my finger, too? Some people are never satisfied.

I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?

I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.

Because you do not believe? Oh, no, said Attolia bitterly. Because I believe and do not choose to worship.

Are you telling me in your own gentle way to stop whining? Yes. I don't feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot. I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you. I did wait until I was outside before I threw up.

Nahuseresh tells me I am not king. Well see if he really prefers the Thief.

He reached for a tabletop and ran his hands over it, clutching the edge until his knuckles turned white. He wanted to know that it was solid. Eddis knew that all the world would seem to him insubstantial, as if it might tear away and reveal something else infinitely larger and more terrifying.

The only thing I knew was that I didn't know anything, really, about the king of the Attolians, and I didn't trust him.

lay there on my pallet, hoping it would improve soon and wondering, in a distant, unreproachful sort of way, if I was any kind of man at all, and decided that I probably wasn't.

I don't feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot." "I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you." "I did wait until I was outside before I threw up.

To have pain is to have certainty; to hear about pain is to have doubt." The same was true of all my symptoms, none of which could be seen. In those months I was lonely in a way I never had been before. I could taste the solitude of the human body like brine in my mouth, a taste that never left me. •

God is not good, or else he could do better.

A church that can no longer distinguish the truth from a lie no longer believes that its own message is true.

He never told me that he loved me. Some men don't, she says. Some men say it all the time and don't mean it. I recognize myself in the latter category, not with Demetri but with one of his predecessors. I sometimes said I love you to Josh because I was afraid I didn't; toward the end, I hardly said it at all, and when I did I meant, I WISH I LOVED YOU.

When I could talk, I said, I don't know what I did wrong. Dena sighed, You care too much.

Stop your doubting, my love. I knew you would find me. ~Jack

Sometimes she was even sure that she had ever really existed.

They might all be drinking laced Kool-Aid in there, but she had a good head on her shoulders. Things like vampires and past lives and immortality just didn't exist in the real world. And Schuyler was a card-carrying member of the real world. She didn't want to check into CrazyTown any time soon.

For Alex to be enveloped into one of New York State's blue-ribbon families helped put to bed a lifetime of doubts and depression about his own dubious birthright.

Now tell me the truth, he said. Why are you doing this? She cringe from him. I told you why. I know you still love me. He smiled. I can see it in your face. Mimi sneered. We are with Lucifer now; we have always been false. I don't believe it for one second, Kingsley whispered, looking into her eyes tenderly.

I'm just a little lonely, that's all. I don't know what my future has in store. I don't want to talk to Josh about it, just because I don't think he'd understand.

With everything else going wrong so far, he was sure the police would try to use his sweat as some sort of proof of guilt.

Do we have a plan?" Alistair asks nervously, fidgeting with his hands. "No," Jack says. "But knowing we don't have a plan is better than not knowing we need one.

Wives get five years to make up their minds