Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

There have been times when you doubt yourself. You don't know if you're working on the right things.

I like to sit on things and digest them and then I'll figure out my next move, but I never said I was right for doing anything.

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I have reservations about everything I do.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.

I'm always doubtful. Everything I do is always doubtful. When you're trying to differentiate, there's going to be this gut sense, is this right? If you're not having doubt, then you're not pushing it hard enough, or you're not looking at the details close enough. You need to be feeling that doubt every single day.

Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

My mind is clouded with a doubt.

Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.

I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.

I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

I don't know how I feel right now.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.