Quotes About Doubt

There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh, as if seen for the first time; then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.

and he said if anyone should leave the home they had built it was him. But as he said this he felt he was acting, or if not acting then so confused as to be incapable of gauging his own sincerity.

Saeed was certain he was in love. Nadia was not certain what exactly she was feeling, but she was certain it had force.

Maybe she'd always wished to be beautiful and didn't quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn't say she was and more attention was given to other women, but she still had a frail hope that there'd been a mistake and she was after all.

If she could leave him so easily, if it was as easy as that, then why did she ever begin it?

there are three kinds of suspicion—a light suspicion, a serious suspicion, and a grave suspicion.

Que sçais-je? (What do I know?)

The undemanding reader asks no questions-and gets no answers.

always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.

Abel,' she said after a moment, 'do you think that I am beautiful?' She had gone to the opposite wall and turned. She leaned back with her hands behind her, throwing her head a little in order to replace a lock of hair that had fallen across her brow. She sucked at her cheeks, musing. 'No, not beautiful,' he said.

You don't fear me, he said now. She wasn't stupid enough to lie. I'm petrified. But I figure you didn't make me come all this way just so you could push me off the roof.

As for asking Tam Lin, Matt didn't know how to bring up the subject. By the way, is anyone planning to cut me up into T-bone steaks? Even more terrifying was the bodyguard's possible answer: You hit the nail on the head there, laddie. I always said you were bright as a button.

Face Guy of Gisbourne? Not likely, not anytime soon, thank you very much.

People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)

What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

I glared down. Do you want me to go? His hands tightened on my arms. He didn't look me in the face. For a moment he didn't speak. Then harshly he said, No.

Why don't I just kill them all as they come in? Orion said, without the slightest doubt in his ability to kill a billion mals. Shut up, Lake, I said, having many doubts about his ability to kill a billion mals.

No matter how hard you've worked, there's always something to worry about.

I don't know if anyone who hasn't tried it can properly appreciate just how horrible it is to be constantly surrounded by people who believe in absolutely everything

Maybe he would let me come in, but he'd want to close the doors up again behind me.

There are people we have never seen who are busy thinking up things we should be worried about.

You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body. One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear. The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith. Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you?

INDECISION is the seedling of FEAR!