Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, Thinking, Doubt

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

• We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Judging, Doubt, Wish

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.117, Macmillan

• I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Southern, Doubt

  Flannery O'Connor (1965). “Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories”, p.23, Macmillan

• But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, People, Heaven

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