Quotes About Doubt

What are you? "A man with a rope?" "Ha-ha.

I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning.

Maybes are anchors you chain to your own feet. Right before you leap off the boat into the ocean.

Aw, kiss him, Gwen, clamored a hundred perky eggs. Shut up, she rebuked. We don't even know him, and until moments ago we thought he was dead. That's no way to start a relationship.

Fear and doubt are major stampeders.

I felt like a child plucking daisy petals: I trust him, I trust him not, I trust him, I trust him not.

The unknown is a vast, paralyzing limbo.

Fear translates to hesitation, and hesitation kills.

But being small was so much more complicated than being God.

The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.

Why do they always ask for words? Why do they ever believe them?

Does mercy look like my middle fucking name?

That sounds suspiciously like faith in me," he mocks. "You see faith where only a challenge has been issued. Will you fail?

Really, how much of a relationship can she think they're having when he's still "selecting" her every morning?

I must have stood there for five minutes trying to talk myself into opening it. The unknown is a vast paralyzing limbo. I'd like to tell you that the monster under the bed is rarely as bad as your fear of it, but in my experience it's almost always worse.

If angels really watch over us like some people believe, mine are deaf-mutes

Folks need faith in times like these. You can't give somebody faith. They either got it or they don't. But you sure can try to give them hope.

Figures I'd put more faith in the devil than any god.

Don't believe anything dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.

The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.

As she'd already learned to her cost, there were no guarantees in life, no guarantees that the person you loved would be there from one day to the next, no guarantees about anything at all.

Faith was a power that arose from inside you, I thought, and doubt was exogenous, a speck in your eye. A black mote from the sad world of adults.

I ignored her and continued down the hall. I had only four more hours to perfect the Sausalito. I was worried only about myself. By that stage, I was no longer certain of how the pack felt about anything.

What if I told you 10 years from now your life would be exactly the same? Doubt you'd be happy. So, why are you afraid of change?