Quotes About Doubt

How could it end any other way? The beast was greater than they were, a force of nature. The beast was like the river, eternal. It had no doubts, no thoughts, no dreams or plans.

Jon could not find it in him to pray to any gods, old or new. If they were real, he thought, they were as cruel and implacable as winter.

Your boat's not like to sink, I don't think. Boats only sink when I'm aboard.

Never believe anything you hear at a woman's tit.

Boys believe nothing can harm them, his doubt whispered. Grown men know better.

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

The night is dark and filled with terrors,

Sometimes he thinks of me as a child he must protect, and sometimes as a woman he would like to bed, but does he ever truly see me as his queen?

When I was a boy, I dreamt that I could fly," he announced. "When I woke, I couldn't … or so the maester said. But what if he lied?

Are you blind or bought?

The path of faith was a crooked one.

Tyrion wondered whether this was the last sunrise he would ever see … and whether wondering was a mark of cowardice.

What was he doing that they had to kill him?" "Asking questions,

in the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight.

As a boy, he used to run across this bridge, even in the black of night. Boys believe nothing can hurt them, his doubt whispered. Grown men know better.

Te llamaré Sospecha... tus compañeros de camada serán Duda, Hostilidad, Ingratitud y Estupidez.

Slynt looked about the solar, at the other Eastwatch men. "Does this boy think I fell off a turnip wagon onto my head?

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?

My wet nurse said the same thing, Will," Royce replied. "Never believe anything you hear at a woman's tit. There are things to

And how do I do that? the old man wondered. Once I might have silenced him forever, but now …

now?" Theon seldom prayed at all, but that was not something you confessed

I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.