Spalding Gray Quotes

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

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.

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

It's not like I have all the answers.

I have reservations about everything I do.

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

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

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

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.

I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.

Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.

I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.

With knowledge comes more doubt.