Quotes About Doubt

It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.

You're sure he's not a cross-dresser?" Diana asked.

Buddha is someone with a very advanced self-concept. His self-esteem is perfect; he has gone beyond doubt; he knows, and he is confident of his knowledge; he expresses himself with conviction. When the Buddha talks of himself in the first person he does so with clarity. He has a strong sense of identity and knows very well who he is. He gives accounts of his life experiences in the first person.

Pearl suspected God didn't love human beings much. She suspected that what He loved most was Nothingness.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Ignoraba que estaba vacilando entre su verdadero nacimiento y la permanencia en la nada.

La fe es creer en lo que sabemos que no existe»

Las personas realmente inteligentes dudan sobre todo y sobre todos, pero por encima de todo dudan de ellos mismos.

Mientras tanto lo que se percibe en sus diarios (de Tolstói) es un hombre dividido: por un lado, lleno de certezas sobre la religión, sobre los defectos de la mujer (la culpa a de todos los desgarres del mundo contemporáneo), sobre la cultura (que sólo florece, decía, cuando no hay moral). Y, por el otro, lleno de dudas.

Antonia introduce las pilas y presiona el botón, cruzando los dedos. Al fin y al cabo, una linterna de dos euros del todo a cien es un acto de fe.

Lamento que este usted subido en la atalaya de sus propias convicciones. Desde ahí la caída es mortal de necesidad.

Cuando un trato parece demasiado bueno para ser verdad, adivina el resto».

You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.

Todos dicen que es muy linda. Yo sospecho que será una beldad lugareña y algo rústica.

I'm always assuming things are going to crash and I'm trying to figure out what could go wrong before it happens. It's helpful for work. But it's a terrible way to live your life.

Do you think I want to spend my life with a man who could so easily abandon his own child? What if we did go west and had a child? If you saw some sweet young thing, maybe you'd run off with her and leave our child.

You cannot believe everything you hear

There was something in front of her, perhaps happiness: Mary hesitated, like someone in a fairy-tale being offered a tempting dish that might be poisoned. Was that it? Again she didn't know. She disapproved of fairy-tale. They were not rational.

These last few months Vida had started believing in all kinds of strange things she'd have laughed at when we lived back in Avalon. She'd tried every spell she could find in the dusty old books she brought home from thrift shops and garage sales; none of them ever worked, and it was awful watching her try.

knowing something is not believing...

Some questions are not meant to be asked as long as the answers are right.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

It is true love because when he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the middle of the street, I always hope he's dead.

Animal? As in lion and tiger and chipmunk? Who's he kidding?