Quotes About Doubt

And so I have to ask Myself: whose memory is at fault? Mine or his? Might he in fact be remembering conversations that never happened?

it sometimes happens that when one acts quickly and with great resolve, all the indecisiveness and doubt comes afterwards, when it is too late. So

Sir, please do not do that,' I said. 'The Other says that 16 is a malevolent person.' 'Malevolent? I wouldn't say so. No more than most people.

As I walked, I was thinking of the Great and Secret Knowledge, which the Other says will grant us strange new powers. And I realized something. I realized that I no longer believed in it. Or perhaps that is not quite accurate. I thought it was possible that the Knowledge existed. Equally I thought that it was possible it did not. Either way it no longer mattered to me. I did not intend to waste my time looking for it any more. (pg. 60)

They have Matthew Rose Sorensen back – or so they believe. A man with his face and voice and gestures moves about the world, and that is enough for them.

I think many people ill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. Anything I thought or did was immediately drawn into the debate. Made a stupid remark--why not kill myself? Missed the bus--better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie--maybe I shouldn't kill myself.

You can see why doubting one's own craziness is considered a good sign: It's a sort of flailing response by the second interpreter. What's happening? the second interpreter is saying. He tells me it's a tiger but I'm not convinced; maybe there's something wrong with me. Enough doubt is in there to give "reality" a toehold.

How could I say for certain that I wasn't, if I couldn't say for certain that a curtain wasn't a mountain range.

La visión seduce con su apariencia de certeza. Ves las cosas y estás convencido de que la realidad es sólo ésa, no te haces preguntas, no indagas porque te conformas con lo que ves. —Quien ve no ve nada —repetía mi padre.

Marry her? Ha. She'd jump out the window first.

It'll be okay. She didn't know if it would be okay or not. She somehow doubted it, but what else was there to say?

There was no doubt about it. Harry was in love. How horrible could things get?

Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly.

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

To prove that he's real, and that he truly is the Son of God? Don't we already know that beyond all doubt? And sadly, isn't it likely that his Second Coming would create the same controversy and skepticism he faced two thousand years ago?

There's not a psychic in the world, including me, who's 100 percent accurate.

Sometimes love's not enough. And if it's not enough, what good is it ?

I'm still not sure I didn't hallucinate the conversation while overdosing on his pheromones.

Why?" He frowned. "You know there's no one else for either of us. What are you waiting for?

If you think," he began, "that being sober and working steadily broke my bullshit meter, now you know better. I knew you were nailing Cross again from the moment you started back up." Biting into my taco, I shot him a skeptical look. "Eva honey, don't you think that if there were another man in New York who could bang it out all night like Cross, I would've found him by now?

Cary shoved both hands into his hair. "Jesus, Eva. You don't up and marry the first guy you have a serious relationship with." "It's not like that," I protested, awkwardly avoiding looking at Raúl. "You know how we feel about each other." "Sure. You two are whack jobs separately. Together, you're a goddamn nut house.

Después de todo lo que Gideon y yo habíamos pasado, lo que seguíamos pasando, todo lo que él había hecho por mí... era más difícil desconfiar que creer.

What in God's name does she see in you?" "I wish I knew. I would show her more of it.