Quotes About Doubt

If you are wise, Matson said to himself grimly, you never take one-way trips. Anywhere. Even to Boise, Idaho...even across the street. Be certain, when you start, that you can scramble back.

After he saw God he felt really good, for around a year. And then he felt really bad. Worse than he ever had before in his life. Because one day it came over him, he began to realize, that he was never going to see God again; he was going to live out his whole remaining life, decades, maybe fifty years, and see nothing but what he had always seen. What we see. He was worse off than if he hadn't seen God.

Gerçeklik, ona inanmay? b?rakt???n vakit, kaybolup gitmeyendir.

It is over, isn't it?" Trustingly, he seemed to be waiting for her to tell him, as if she would know. As if hearing himself say it meant nothing; he had a dubious attitude toward his own words; they didn't become real, not until she agreed. "It's over," she said.

There is nothing worse… no punishment greater than to have known God and no longer to know him.

he should have that cold but somehow enthusiastic look, as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith.

Where are you going? Won't you come downstairs and—be with me? There was the most shocking news on TV; Buster Friendly claims that Mercer is a fake. What do you think about that, Rick? Do you think it could be true?" "Everything is true," he said. "Everything anybody has ever thought.

He should have that chilled but somehow enthusiastic look, as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith.

And who am I? The wrong person; I can tell you that.

They're not idealists like Joe and me; they're cynics with utter faith. It's a sort of brain defect, like a lobotomy—that

A realidade é aquilo que não desaparece, quando se deixa de crer nisso.

This guy—Joe whatever—hasn't even got the right expression on his face; he should have that cold but somehow enthusiastic look, as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith. Yes, that's how they are. They're not idealists like Joe and me; they're cynics with utter faith.

He started toward the door, then halted briefly. To the two of them he said, 'Is the owl genuine?' Rachael glanced swiftly at the elder Rosen. 'He's leaving anyhow,' Eldon Rosen said. 'It doesn't matter; the owl is artificial. There are no owls.

I don't trust him. You know, he's crazy. And when you're around him you're crazy too.

Maybe you're an android, Officer Crams said. With a false memory, like they give them. Had you thought of that?

Chuckling, Barris inspected his patty melt, which was melted imitation cheese and fake ground beef on special organic bread. "What kind of bread is this?" he asked.

Why?" Eric asked. Now the crux of the matter had been broached;

I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.

She shook her head and whispered, No. No! That can't be true. Impossible! You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!

Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't.

We've heard them all talk about Dust, and they're so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed them, even though we could see that what they were doing was wicked and evil and wrong... We thought Dust must be bad too, because they were grown up and they said so. But what if it isn't? What if it's—' She said breathlessly, 'Yeah! What if it's really good...

I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't.

Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries.

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.