Quotes About Uncertainty

I walk out of the dark and into the dark and sit down and wait.

it's half-past nowhere everywhere.

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

We know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

Then after all this reverse the procedure. Have a good love affair. And the thing you might learn is that nobody knows anything— not the State, nor the mice the garden hose or the North Star. And if you ever catch me teaching a creative writing class and you read this back to me I'll give you a straight A right up the pickle barrel.

we know so little, we know so much, we don't know enough.

I told her, Hang tight, baby, it's a crazy world. And that, as they say, was that.

You waited in a shrink's office with a bunch of psychos and you wondered if you were one.

So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all.

Son-of-a-bitch, I thought, one minute I've got two women and the next I've got none.

Mailman, you got any mail for me?" And you felt like screaming, "Lady, how the hell do I know who you are or I am or anybody is?

This future running toward us paralyzes the wallet and the brain.

Hicimos una parada para comprar licor, hielo y cigarrillos, luego regresamos al apartamento. Su única copa había puesto a Cecilia soltando risas y hablando sin parar. Ahora estaba explicándonos que los animales también tenían alma. Nadie se lo discutió. Era posible, lo sabíamos. De lo que no estábamos tan seguros era de si la teníamos nosotros.

The beginning of a relationship was always the easiest.

Since if past performance charts mean anything I'll surely go first the last way.

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about. I

but now it's the waiting on death. it's not death that's the problem, it's the waiting.

Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.

Getting out of bed in the morning was the same as facing the blank wall of the Universe.

You scared? asked Garson. Yes, I said, but what about?

La muerte les llega a los que esperan y a los que no.

No estoy loco, pero tampoco estoy cuerdo.

Y levanto los ojos hacia la ventana y pienso, ya no sé dónde estás, y sigo andando y me pregunto adónde va la vida cuando se detiene