Flannery OConnor Quotes about Doubt

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

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

Flannery OConnor Quotes about Doubt

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