Quotes About Doubt

A lot of what keeps me going is wanting to be better, thinking I'm not good enough.

I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew up not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

I've always been afraid of who I am and not knowing what I can do.

I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye.

Truth is an illusory notion.

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.

I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.

I'm deeply insecure. I ask my wife all the time, 'Was that OK? Are people lying?' I'm not as happily oblivious as I'd like.

Yes, it was difficult - making 'The Act of Killing' in particular was a very lonely process. No one really believed in it until very close to the end. But it was also a sanctuary. I was working in obscurity.

Against Knowledge I have, as the light cynic observed of a certain lady's past, only one serious objection - that there is so much of it.

Yogis have human emotions, but the thing is not to let anger and doubt become an obsession.

Obviously, there's times in your career when people doubt you.

I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more.

The moments like these, the passing doubts, were the temptations that caught you if you were not careful.

Mi resi conto, allora, che l'unico vero collaudo della forza – del tono muscolare, per così dire – della sanità mentale è la capacità di sostenere l'urto di un interrogativo dietro l'altro senza che vi sia neanche l'ombra di una risposta.