Quotes About Doubt

How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?

Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him.

This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for this: I have done what I've sworn I could never do; I have become my own nightmare... I have lost control.

That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

You cannot trust perception. Falling, at first, feels like flying.

Dylan Jerome, the lawyer admits, wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.

Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.

Then Henry speaks again. Did he do it? I turn to him slowly. Does it matter?

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

You okay in there? No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.

There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Some people are not afraid of commitment. They are afraid of committing to someone who won't commit to them.

Being cheated on takes a tole on your thought process...In every relationship after that you will think from a 'what if' perspective.