Salman Rushdie Quotes

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

It's not like I have all the answers.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Everyone couldn't be happier and more terrified.

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I am a man of lost faiths.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

I can give you a definite perhaps.

I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.