Alice Sebold Quotes

That's a question mark everyone's asking

I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.

I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.

I don't have answers. I have questions.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it.

I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead, all I could see were question marks.

Do not feel certain of anything.

To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole unleashed skeptical forces which, outside of the tightly controlled environment of a rigorous philosophical debate, led a lot of people to throw their hands up in despair and think 'what's the point?'. A lot of the public perception of philosophy is that it leaves you with no answers, and more confused than you were at the beginning.

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

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

Whatever the future holds I'm not really sure.

My mind is clouded with a doubt.

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

So when people ask me if there's another one, I say, "You know, I don't think so, but I don't know, and I kind of don't understand why."

His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.