Quotes About Doubt

De verdad le quedan dudas todavía? —le pregunté—. ¿A pesar de tener noventa años? —Hay ciertas cosas de las que nunca podemos estar seguros —aseveró—, aunque vivamos cien años. Eso demuestra que somos humanos.

Doubt lurks in the bushes, waiting for you to come back from your honeymoon.

there's an epidemic of ambivalence about many things these days.

each of us humans has a moment-if not many-in which we lapse. for some, the transgression involves sex. for others, simply doubt or a rage so all encompassing, it impels us to make irreversible decisions. but whatever the transgression is doesn't really matter. what matters is that lapsing is our fate. we humans are doomed to it. worse, it is our destiny to look back longingly, with nostalgia, at our world before we changed, at who we were Before. we can never forget. but we can never go back.

For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.

He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done. I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.

It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done.

I gave you things I wasn't sure I even had.

I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.

Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none of them.

After passionately nursing this idea for about an hour, I suddenly had another idea: no I wouldn't. Of course I wouldn't make an entire city out of cereal boxes in the basement. The moment I had this second thought, I knew this was the real one.

Where do we come from? Do souls really exist? I can't answer these questions, especially not at 6am.

But we couldn't see to form a chain of doubt between each other's eyes. And her voice had a vibrant certainty that made believing her feel liberating and obvious.

Dac? n-ar fi fost visele, n-am fi È™tiut niciodat? c? avem un suflet. Lumea real?, concret?, tangibil? ar fi fost tot ce este, singurul vis permis nou?, È™i pentru c? singurul, incapabil s? se recunoasc? pe sine drept vis. Ne îndoim de ea pentru c? vis?m.

By leaving, we are not necessarily disobeying the men according to the Bible, because we, the women, do not know exactly what is in the Bible, being unable to read it. Furthermore, the only reason why we feel we need to submit to our husbands is because our husbands have told us that the Bible decrees it.

Is that true? Are you really him?" "I am afraid I still hold that distinction." "You are Sherlock Holmes? No, I don't believe it." "That is quite all right. I scarcely believe it myself.

No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.

Was it wrong to say something no one believed, even if it was right? Did he have to just sit there and take it when no one agreed with him?

It isn't that I didn't question why I spent all my days waiting

Prayers? You only pray when it suits you, and you already burned all the gods.

Only fools are positive.

Los escépticos y los cautos son minoría.

MADAME PERNELLE. My dear, appearances are oft deceiving, And seeing shouldn't always be believing.

Je puis croire ces mots, un artifice honnête. Je ne me fierai point à des propos si doux, Qu'un peu de ses faveurs, après quoi je soupire, Ne vienne m'assurer tout ce qu'ils m'ont pu dire.