Quotes About Certainty

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love.

Words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself," he said. "Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe." From a Life Magazine interview in 1988.

What was then an augury for direction of action among the ruins of an archaic mentality is now the search for an innocence of certainty among the mythologies of facts.

What awaits you? Eternal peace. Serenity. The light on the other side. What awaits me is unknown. The only certainty is that life is an eternal hell.

She smiled. "You did. And my gaydar never lies. Although later, I thought you might be bi." No, I wasn't bi. I was sure of that now. The depth of desire—it was unbelievable. That, and the certainty of this being right. Being me.

On ne sait jamais quand la vie va vous trahir ; inutile de compter sur le lendemain, ni même sur l'heure qui va suivre ; il n'y a de certain que la mort.

Cómo podía yo sospechar que aquello que parecía tan mentira era verdadero...

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

No tenía ninguna fe de que ocurriera lo que deseaba, y sabía que sin fe no ocurriría. Sabía que sin fe no ocurre nada de lo que debería ocurrir, y con fe casi siempre tampoco.

Sabía que sin fe no ocurre nada de lo que debería ocurrir, y con fe casi siempre tampoco.

Haber creido ver a la maga era menos amargo que la certidumbre de que un deseo incontrolable la había arrancado del fondo de eso que definian como subconsciencia y proyectado contra la silueta.

but once you start doubting,it's hard to know what to believe.

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

The world, you tell yourself, will never end.

I'm teaching English in Japan next year," she said matter-of-factly, "It's going to be amazing." Not "I'm thinking about..." or "I've applied but..." I AM.

Love is not a gamble when your holding all the cards.

If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole? You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go.

In his Word we can never go astray. We can never be deluded or confounded or destroyed in his Word. If you think there can be no assurance or certainty for the soul, listen to the certainty of the Word of God. The soul can be instructed and enlightened ... so that it perceives that its whole salvation and righteousness, or justification, is enclosed in Jesus Christ."8

I like to let them talk things out, but fact isn't a democratic process; if a thing isn't true it isn't true, even if everybody votes that it is.

But how do we know it's really you? I mean, I could put a saucepan on my head and call myself the God of Boiled Dumplings; wouldn't mean I was telling the truth.

Simply because something is factually wrong doesn't make it untrue.

fact isn't a democratic process; if a thing isn't true it isn't true, even if everybody votes that it is.

That's the thing about belief, you can't make yourself do it. It's like falling asleep or being in love. You can lie there all night desperately wanting to go to sleep, and the more you want the more it doesn't happen. You can really, really want to believe, but if you don't you just don't.