Quotes About Doubt

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.

IgnoranÈ›a genereaz? mai des încredere în sine decât cunoÈ™tinÈ›ele.

The sound of the surf mingled with the wind rushing in his ears, and still it did not drown out the sound of her voice: "Can you think of any reason why I should not stay?" A thousand. None of them good enough.

It's that undefined something we're really afraid of-the flicker of movement we don't quite catch out of the corner of our eye, the bad dream we can't quite remember when we wake up, the sound of a door opening downstairs we thought we heard. And worst of all, the things we're not sure even happened, the things that we might just have imagined, that might mean we're going mad, all those nameless, nebulous things we can't quite put our finger on and can only guess at.

Three o'clock's when every doubt and regret and guilty thought bubbles up out of your subconscious to plague you. 'The dark night of the soul,' F. Scott Fitzgerald called it.

Nimeni nu crede niciodat? ceea ce se întâmpl?, decât dup? ce e prea târziu.

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

I was afraid I was going to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock?

He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.

I think sometimes people would rather have a bad answer about things than no answer at all.

Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.

You ever get ill at ease? said Rawlins. About what? I dont know. About anything. Just ill at ease. Sometimes. If you're someplace you aint supposed to be I guess you'd be ill at ease. Should be anyways. Well suppose you were ill at ease and didnt know why. Would that mean that you might be someplace you wasnt supposed to be and didnt know it?

Sometimes faith might just be a case of not havin nothin else left.

Well, I think the questioner wants the truth. The doubter wants to be told there aint no such thing.

The Good Book says that the meek shall inherit the earth and I expect that's probably the truth. I aint no freethinker, but I'll tell you what. I'm a long way from bein convinced that it's all that good a thing.

I don't see you holdin no aces.