Quotes About Doubt

Tatty says oh yes, she knows what he's like. But when she thinks about it, she doesn't.

Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

Jean asked her sister, "Am I?" "Are you?" she asked back.

Christianity's such a weird religion. The image you're brought up with is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. Bill Hicks

There is no point in arguing if you are not susceptible to reason. Embrace your cynicism. Hug it.

since 'nothing can be begun with certainty, it's better we begin with doubt'.

Is your faith such a fragile thing that it can be so easily shattered?

I'm a man of no convictions. At least, I think I am.

Sometimes I don't think any of us really believes anything we say; we are just defending our kind.

I take you for a girl who's eager to grow unstable at the first indication that things can come back to haunt a person, even after she has given them up for dead.

My friend did not want her suspicion—which sustained the possibility that her husband both was and was not having an affair—to disappear by exposing it.

In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.

God Only Knows the Issue.

Optimismus ist nur ein Mangel an Information.

Crees que me sentó bien cuando Leo me dijo que se hacía católico? Fue tan doloroso para mí como la muerte de Henriette; no me habría dolido tanto si me hubiese dicho que se hacía comunista. Eso puedo concebirlo, que un joven albergue un falso sueño de justicia social y todo eso. Pero aquello.»

But I have at least learned to contemplate the events of life with tranquillity and not let myself be flung to and fro by circumstances in a sea of doubt.

Sempre invejei os tibetanos pela simplicidade da sua fé pois toda a minha vida tenho procurado respostas. Embora tenha aprendido a forma de meditar enquanto vivi na Ásia, a resposta final para o enigma da vida nunca me foi revelada. Mas aprendi pelo menos a contemplar os eventos da vida com tranquilidade e a não permitir que as circunstâncias me façam derivar de um lado para o outro num mar de dúvidas.

I have always envied the Tibetans their simple faith, for all my life I have been a seeker. Though I learned, while in Asia, the way to meditate, the final answer to the riddle of life has not been vouchsafed to me. But I have at least learned to contemplate the events of life with tranquillity and not let myself be flung to and fro by circumstances in a sea of doubt.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

They had something, that generation, he thought. They didn't doubt themselves. They knew what life was, and where they belonged in it. Not like us.

Write what I know, who wants to read that? If only our apartment was haunted or I was the tiniest bit possessed by the devil.

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?