Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'How did I get here?'

I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.

Oh my god what am I doing with my life?

My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I don't know why.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

When it comes to being confused about what to do about life, that's been me and will always be me.

There was a time where I was really confused about who I was and what I was doing, and I was just kind of depressed.

Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite able to make out, through the yellow, stinking mist, just what lies below in the slime, in the oozing, vomit-streaked slime; and so I could go on, my thoughts, writing much, trying to find the core, the meaning for myself.

What the hell am I doing here?

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

Charlie Brown: "Life is just too much for me... I've been confused right from the day I was born... I think the whole trouble is that we're thrown into life too fast... We're not really prepared..." Linus: "What did you want... A chance to warm up first?"

Most of us go through life praying a little, planning a little, jockeying for position, hoping but never being quite certain of anything, and always secretly afraid that we will miss the way. This is a tragic waste of truth and never gives rest to the heart.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I don't know how I feel right now.

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.