Quotes About Doubt

Nie by? pewien, czy post?puje s?usznie, ale by? pewien, ?e post?puje tak, jak chce post?powa?.

Manejava o volante, sentia-se segura de si mesma e bela, e pensava ainda: seria verdadeiramente o amor que a amarrava a Klima ou tão-só o medo de perdê-lo? E se esse medo era de inicio a forma ansiosa do amor, com o passar do tempo não teria o amor (fatigado e esgotado) fugido aos poucos dessa forma? E não teria ficado, no fim de tudo, apenas esse medo, o medo sem amor? E o que restaria se o próprio medo desaparecesse?

When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have a hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true, that nothing is sincere. Maintaining nonbelief (constantly, systematically, without the slightest vacillation) requires a tremendous effort and the proper training-in other words, frequent police interrogations.

El que empieza dudando de pequeñeces termina dudando de la vida como tal.

J'en arrivai finalement à les croire, incapable que j'étais d'imaginer (c'était au-dessus de mon audace) que tous les autres pouvaient se tromper, que la Révolution elle-même, l'esprit du temps, se trompait, tandis que moi, individu, j'avais raison.

This absurd jealousy, grounded as it was in mere hypotheses, proved that he considered her fidelity an unconditional postulate of their relationship. How then could he begrudge her her jealousy of his very real mistresses?

não chegava à convicção de que existe um Deus enquanto ser dirigindo os nossos destinos. Fosse como fosse, como podia eu saber disso? E eles, que podiam eles saber? Teriam a certeza de ter a certeza? Estava sentado numa igreja com a estranha e feliz sensação de que a minha não crença e a crença deles eram curiosamente próximas.

Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions.

Y le dio pena que, en una situación como aquella, en la que un hombre de verdad sería capaz de tomar inmediatamente una decisión, él dudase, privando así de su significado al momento más hermoso que había vivido jamás

Sabina sentía a su alrededor el vacío. Pero ¿qué sucedería si ese vacío fuese precisamente el objetivo de todas sus traiciones?

Sin ningún tipo de preparación teológica, espontáneamente, comprendí desde niño la incompatibilidad entre la mierda y Dios y, de ahí, cuán dudosa resulta la tesis básica de la antropología cristiana según la cual el hombre fue creado a imagen y semejanza de Dios. Una de dos: o el hombre fue creado a semejanza de Dios y entonces Dios tiene tripas, o Dios no tiene tripas y entonces el hombre no se le parece

I don't believe there is a God, I said fiercely, and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement.

Strang had already perfected his talent for telling other people just what they wanted to hear, so a dose of skepticism is in order for any belief he professed—a double dose for the ones he professed passionately.

Most human beings still cannot trust love.

I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis

I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.

Love is a credulous thing.

A lover fears all that he believes.

Yes, I-- I think I love her. Is that nuts?

Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!

Old love, old love, / How can I be true? / Shall I be faithless to myself / Or to you?

It was a terrifying feeling. And if it was love, he wanted none of it.

You shouldn't love me. I don't deserve you.