Quotes About Doubt

Their doubt is your fuel for dreams. You just have to drive.

Worry is to human beings … what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

William Goldman, Marathon Man

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there's music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.

I don't think I'm ready for New York.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.

My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it.