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Quotes About Doubt

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~ Harper Lee
Sometimes I just don't vote my convictions, that's all.
~ Harper Lee
The law says 'reasonable doubt,' but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of a doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent.
~ Harper Lee
Why doesn't their flesh creep? How can they devoutly believe everything they hear in church and then say the things they do and listen to the things they hear without throwing up? I thought I was a Christian but I'm not. I'm something else and I don't know what. Everything I have ever taken for right and wrong these people have taught me -- these same, these very people. So it's me, it's not them. Something has happened to me.
~ Harper Lee
Never assume they know what you fear they know.
~ Harry Bingham
The harder you push at an unreliable memory, the less reliable it
~ Harry Bingham
If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't. And if that's what God's like, I wouldn't worry about it.
~ Haruki Murakami
Please remember: things are not what they seem.
~ Haruki Murakami
The thing I'm most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I'm going to do. Of not knowing what I'm doing right now
~ Haruki Murakami
Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?
~ Haruki Murakami
So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation.
~ Haruki Murakami
Probably. Again with the probablys. A world full of probablys, she said.
~ Haruki Murakami
You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.
~ Haruki Murakami
Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone.
~ Haruki Murakami
sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.
~ Haruki Murakami
You're here," I continued. "At least you look as if you're here. But maybe you aren't. Maybe it's just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you've hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?
~ Haruki Murakami
What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.
~ Haruki Murakami
He placed this doubt inside a drawer in his mind labeled "Pending" and postponed any further consideration.
~ Haruki Murakami
I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don't trust it, I have to investigate the source.
~ Haruki Murakami
Are you asking because you really want an answer?
~ Haruki Murakami
But even though I was with my father again, I never felt really secure deep down. I don't know how to put it exactly, but things were never really settled inside me. I always had this feeling like, I don't know, like somebody was putting something over on me, like my real father had disappeared forever and, to fill the gap, some other guy was sent to me in his shape.
~ Haruki Murakami
Still, when you get to a certain age, and have created your own lifestyle and social standing, and only then start having grave doubts about your value as a human being
~ Haruki Murakami
I believe that it's not necessary to believe in the soul's existence. But turn that around and you come to the belief that there's no need to not believe in its existence.
~ Haruki Murakami
I would begin to think that I wanted to do something, but then I would become incapable of distinguishing between the probable results of doing it and of not doing it. I often get the feeling that things around me have lost their proper balance, though it could be that my perceptions are playing tricks on me.
~ Haruki Murakami