#doubts

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough. ↗

— Jane Campion

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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Gustave Flaubert

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When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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But, oh, when gloomy doubts prevail, I fear to call thee mine; The springs of comfort seem to fail, And all my hopes decline. Yet, gracious God, where shall I flee? Thou art my only trust; And still my soul would cleave to thee, Though prostrate in the dust. ↗

— Anne Steele

#hope #trust #art

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. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#decisions #doubts #death

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions? ↗

— Charles Darwin

#darwinism #evolution #human-mind #macro-evolution #macroevolution

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#doubting #doubts #effort #efforts #mankind

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound. ↗

— William Goldman

#doubts #self-doubt #writing #doubt