Quotes About Doubt

The sullen workman who is afraid of being imposed upon is secretly convinced of his own inferiority--when he has to say, or think, "I'm as good as any man," he doesn't quite believe it himself.

Stars are not okay.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!

Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Laura was not in any way religious. She was not even religious enough to speculate towards irreligion.

She felt that these clean-shaven men with bristling eyebrows were suavely concealing their doubts of her intelligence and her probity. Their jaws were like so many mouse-traps, baited with commonplaces.

To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.

In the hour of temptation, God's goodness is always impugned, and God's truth is always brought into question, and all other tokens of His love, His veracity, are always obscured.

I have a hundred reasons to dislike this gentleman," Erica reminded herself aloud. "And a thousand reasons more not to go courting with any man." Lavinia laughed at that. "Whenever has a woman's heart listened to her head?

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Before you get to the place that is calling you, recognize whom you can talk to about your destiny and whom you can't. Dream killers will question your ability, your preparation, and even your worthiness to live your dream.

Non-belief and skepticism go hand and hand; always seeking, but never finding the truth.

None is absolutely true.

Character is a lack of doubt, character is stubbornly persevering in an intention no matter how senseless it is, character is a lack of imagination, character is inborn dullness, character is the misfortune of humanity.

Czy ja wygl?dam na zamachowca? -Niech pan spyta swojej ?ony.

I haven't been writing for years. I lost faith. it's not for me. Too many levels. -What levels? -All those levels of existence. us down here, and up there, high above us. the ceiling of the universe. I've chosen nothingness.

Each question is three thousand questions, and a good question provides more questions.

Faith that is allergic to questioning is just fundamentalist blind dogma.

Mother Mary! Surely Michael and her escort could not—

God, save me from your followers.

Yet even in such moments she didn't doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did.

I've never tried to imagine a world without God. This one seems hard enough as it is.