Quotes About Doubt

I ceased some time ago to believe in goodness.

And could it be true without other awful things being true as well?

She was a part, an evidence, of some pure uncracked unfissured confidence in the good which was never there for me again.

Sometimes he would have liked to pray, but what is prayer if there is nobody there?

However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after;

Since parting company with the priesthood he could almost be said to have become demoralised. Almost, for somehow he remained someone, a slightly mysterious someone, whom they respected, and they gave him the benefit of every doubt.

Pavydas gimsta drauge su meile, bet ne visuomet drauge numiršta.

It's just that I don't hope any more, I've lost my nerve.

I wonder if this is the end, thought Ducane, and if so what it will all have amounted to. How tawdry and small it has all been.

I'm not a lucky person who makes radiant decisions which are obviously right.

Then she thought, is this really all I have to look forward to, is this what I have to comfort myself with?

What is God anyway? A dark place —

I can't believe in your other attachment.

I did not harbour intelligent doubts about whether Hartley would go on loving me, naturally I knew that she was mine forever. But as we closed our eyes upon tears of joy there was cosmic dread.

rabbit hole of relativism.

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

Are you asking me or telling me?

It could have been suicide or an accident, or perhaps that grey area in between.

How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.

Religion will never show the way.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

Baley's lips twitched. He had guessed that in some ways robotic logic must fall short and he was convinced of it now. As the roboticist had said: Logical but not reasonable.