Inner Questioning Quotes

I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.

In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos - the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?

At all points, you have to look at what you're doing and say, 'Do I want to do this?' 'Am I up to it?' 'Am I strong enough?'

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord.

I always ask the question, "Is this what I want in my life?

I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?'

I'm not a mad genius or anything, but I'm just constantly driven to make things up, but I wonder who I'm doing all this for?

Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

Most of the time I ask, "Why have I forsaken God?" I look at myself and ask that question when probably the better question is to say, "Where are you God, and I'll let you in." Instead of thinking that you've abandoned God, push yourself in the other direction like, "God, how can I get closer?"

Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out?

I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

There comes a turning point in the life of every person when he reflects on his journey and work and ponders on the next road to take. Is this the pinnacle, the ultimate? What next?

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

'What is celebration?' Rather than dancing, rather than laughing, rather than loving, rather than enjoying this silence, the mind asks: 'What is celebration?'

I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.

I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

You have to look yourself in the eye and ask, 'Who are you?' It can't be all about work.

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me? (140)