Quotes About Doubt

The whole area of religion and spirituality invites flimflam and is filled with

It might be better to be more of a skeptic than a believer, less open-minded and more critical. The problem in the modern spiritual

What was "walking on water," if it wasn't Bible talk for surfing?

It was as if whatever had happened had reached some kind of limit. It was like finding the gateway to the past unguarded, unforbidden because it didn't have to be. Built into the act of return finally was this glittering mosaic of doubt. Something like what Sauncho's colleagues in marine insurance liked to call inherent vice.

so claim'd are the Surveyors in their contra-solar Return by Might-it-bes, and If-it-weres, - not to mention What-was-thats.

Of course it happened. Of course it didn't happen.

Y qué quieres?, ¿es que sólo tengo que fiarme de las buenas personas?, tío, a las buenas personas las compran y las venden todos los días. Tanto da que me fíe de algún auténtico cabrón de vez en cuando, al final viene a ser lo mismo. Quiero decir que no apostaría por ninguno de los dos.

They'd never heard it that way. Went on warming their hands at an invisible fire. Oedipa, to retaliate, stopped believing in them.

paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.

Oh well, 'really'— it's like a woman isn't it, you look at each other, you think Of course not, she thinks Of course not,— yet the Alternatives hang about, don't they, like Wraiths.

Doubt is the essence of Christ.

Metzger flashed her a big wry couple rows of teeth. "Looks don't mean a thing any more," he said. "I live inside my looks, and I'm never sure. The possibility haunts me.

Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?

I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.

Ne için buradas?n?" "Sinirden." "Ah, mümkün deÄŸil, gerçekten inanamam buna." "Tam anlam?yla doÄŸru," dedim coÅŸkum sönerken. Çelik gibi sinirleri olduÄŸundan kuÅŸku duyulmamas?ndan daha tedirgin edici ÅŸey yoktur bir kad?n için.

Oh dear, I sometimes think... whatever should I do if anything were to... But, there, thinking's no good to any one—is it, madam? Thinking won't help. Not that I do it often. And if ever I do I pull myself up sharp, "Now, then, Ellen. At it again—you silly girl! If you can't find anything better to do than to start thinking!...

La felicidad es aceptar la lucha, el esfuerzo, la duda y avanzar, avanzar franqueando cada obstáculo.

It's not the innocence that made him so certain. It's the arrogance of his guilt.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

I would be a Christian, except for all the Christians.

Please, God. I am a smart woman, I know words, I've read books; he's just a guy, he's just a person, I can speak to him. "Hmm," I say, and during the subsequent silence, I consider ways to kill myself.

I am worthy of my healthy, direct relationship with God, and I surrender all my doubt about this.

Yet Roddy at least had always been forthright with her. Though she suspected he hid one of his motives

She sighed and shook her head. "I'm not worth yer time or effort. Truly, I'm not." "And