Gustave Flaubert Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Doubt, Madness, Illness

  Gustave Flaubert (2002). “Memoirs of a Madman”, Hesperus Press

• One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Doubt, Desperate

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

  Gustave Flaubert

  Doubt, Literature, Mania

• She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Believe, Doubt, Different

• I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Work, Profound, Doubt

• It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sleep, Doubt, Pillow

  Gustave Flaubert (2016). “Bouvard and Pecuchet: A Tragi-Comic Novel of Bourgeois Life”, p.501, The Floating Press

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