Questioning Quotes
539 quotes by 427 authors
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Who said nights were for sleep?
— Marilyn Monroe
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his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in…
— Alan Moore
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The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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...for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God’s got…
— Dorothy Allison
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
— Sylvia Plath
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Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking…
— Haruki Murakami
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Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways…
— Richard Kadrey
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With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had…
— Henry Miller
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Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It…
— Alice Hoffman
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Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
— Nancy Willard
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That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps…
— Sarah Dessen
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How far should a person go in the name of true love?
— Nicholas Sparks
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My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings…
— Khalil Gibran
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He watched as I slipped one of the shoes on. "You have a guardian angel." "I don't believe in angels," I told him. "I believe…
— Richelle Mead
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You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it,…
— Kevin Brockmeier
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It isn't necessarily easier if you know what it is you're meant to do-- but at least you don't waste time in questioning or doubting.…
— Diana Gabaldon
Who Wrote These Questioning Quotes
427 authors contributed a total of 539 Questioning Quotes, led by these top contributors: