Quotes About Doubt

It is not a question of conferring some kind of positivity on thought, since its operation is precisely to detract from the truth and the legitimacy of existence. And radicality doubtless has no other function than to provide an added bonus of pleasure.

Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.

Here's what I say - when you don't know or can't know the answer to a question, why not believe the answer you like best? It's as valid as any of the others - and it might be right.

My existence was beginning to cause me serious concern. Was I a mere figment of the imagination?

But to what extent did I believe in my delirium? That's the basic question, and yet I can't tell. I realized later that we can know everything about our attachments except their force, that is, their sincerity.

Cómo se puede mentir poniendo a la razón de parte de uno?

I thought if I told no one it might not be true.

I try, but they always see through me. The passages will never lead anywhere, the doors will always be shut.

I prayed, but the words fell to the ground meaning nothing.

I don't say I don't believe, I say I don't know, I know what I see with my eyes and I never see it.

but it seemed to me that when you are in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.

I love her. Then you do not love the Lord. Yes, I love both of them. You cannot. I do.

I can't be a priest because although my heart is as loud as hers I can pretend no answering riot. I have shouted to God and the Virgin, but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a god can meet passion with passion? She says he can. Then he should.

But, Mistress, do not be seen to stray too far from the real that is clear to others, or you may stand accused of the real that is clear to you.

I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.

Cheer up ye saints of God, There's nothing to worry about; Nothing to make you feel afraid, Nothing to make you doubt; Remember Jesus saves you; So why not trust him and shout, You'll be sorry you worried at all, tomorrow, morning.

I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough.

No man believes what he does not feel to be true. I should like to unbelieve myself. I sleep at night and wake in the morning hoping to be gone. it never happens. One knee forward, one knee bent, I bear the world.

What if?' has no power against 'What if not?' The not of you is unbearable. I must have you.

I love you, he says. I want to hold this moment. I want to believe it. I want his love to have enough salt in it to float me. I don't want to be swimming for my life. I want to trust him. I don't trust him.

I loved God of course, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you? I had no idea.

Truth is a questioning place.

Whites find it harder to believe in something to believe in.