Quotes About Uncertainty

Ich verbrenne, so wie ich mein ganzes Leben lnag verbrannt bin. Ich weiß nicht, was das heißt.

política cuántica», que describe cómo el mundo clásico de la física postnewtoniana (lineal, predecible y, hasta cierto punto, incluso determinista) había dado paso al mundo cuántico: altamente interconectado e incierto, increíblemente complejo y también cambiante en función de la posición del observador.

We have all been reminded of our innate human fragility, our frailties and our flaws. This realization combined with the stress engendered by the lockdowns and the concurrent deep sense of uncertainty about what is coming next could, albeit surreptitiously, change us and the way we relate to other people and to our world. For some, what starts as a change may end up as an individual reset.

But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

Irgendwann jedoch mußten die Philosophen sich einer schlich­ten, peinlicherweise unbestreitbaren Tatsache stellen und mit ihr fertigwerden: Nicht eine der Fragen, die zweieinhalb Jahr­ tausende lang die europäische Philosophie lebendig erhalten haben, ist je zur allgemeinen Zufriedenheit gelöst worden - sie alle sind noch immer umstritten oder wurden per Dekret der Philosophen für hinfällig erklärt.

There's no end to suspicion once you get going.

Shinji slowly fell forward onto his face. Debris bounced up on impact. It took less than thirty seconds for the rest of his body to die. The memento of his beloved uncle--the earring worn by the woman he loved--was now stained with the blood running down Shinji's left ear, reflecting the glow from the red flames of the farm building. And so the boy known as the Third Man, Shinji Mimura, was dead.

She begins laughing hysterically at the long-held notion that the bra, like her lost marriage, & her fabulous mother, & the man she thought she loved 2 men ago, or even the one she loves now, would last forever. ... & now the hole, emerging like an omen of change, slapping her upside the head, & making her wonder, "What next? What in the hell is going to happen next in this life of mine?

She knows that women who have climbed through a large chunk of their lives are always wise enough to realize that certainty equals uncertainty.

The interesting and challenging thing about this moment is that we know the old forms aren't working. But we can't yet see what the new forms will be. We are making them up in "real time"; we're even reimagining time.

Resilience) acknowledges from the outset that things will go wrong. All of our solutions will eventually outlive their usefulness. We will make messes, and disruption we do not cause or predict will land on us. This is the drama of being alive.

We knew what we were against. We just didn't know what we were for.

I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.

It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.

Do you like this? I click on the attachment. It's a slightly blurry picture, but of what, I'm not sure. A…a tree, maybe, though it doesn't look so healthy. It looks diseased, moist and soft. There's a knothole that looks damp and sick. Whatever it is, I can't imagine why someone would be sending it to Adam. He doesn't know anything about trees.

The bewilderment is the worst part. That's what they don't tell you in divorce articles. They talk about anger and loneliness and growing apart and starting over and being kind to yourself, but they don't tell you about the untold hours in the black hole of why. Why? What changed? When? Why was I the one you chose to marry, but all of a sudden, I'm not enough anymore?

the time between almost and right away...

Matthew, sometimes we just have to hope that things work out, because being absolutely sure of something . . . it doesn't happen a lot.

Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were, there'd be no opportunity for faith, and then it would be a very dull existence.

How will I know." "You won't until afterwards.

C. S. Lewis put it, "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

Weten is verschrikkelijk, maar niet weten is nog veel erger