Quotes About Uncertainty

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it again.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

"Que scais-je?" was the motto of Montaigne, As also of the first academicians: That all is dubious which man may attain, Was one of their most favourite positions. There's no such thing as certainty, that's plain As any of Mortality's conditions; So little do we know what we're about in This world, I doubt if doubt itself would be doubting.

When I was young I used to think the only certain thing about life was that I should one day die. Now I think the only certain thing about life is that there is no such thing as death.

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Feet have no roots; everyone can fall.

I need to get my life together, but I'm kinda waiting to see if the world is gonna end before I put in any real effort.

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I think it's about adventure. The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, "Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home." And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure...

Kur shihte se të tjerët nuk mahniteshin aq fort sa ç'e kishte pritur, ai i rikthehej fillimit. Në qytet bëhej nami, kurse ata ishin si në humbellë. Ishim në një kohë që s'është më, më kupton? Koha ecën, orët, dita, të gjitha ecin, kurse ti mbetesh në diçka që s'di si ta quash. Kohë pa kohë. Nën zero...

Ata nuk kishin menduar kurre se ajo mund te qeshte ,dhe sic do gje qe permbys nje mendim te pergjithshem, kjo e qeshur zgjoi tek ata nje fare shqetesimi , gati gati frike

He was obsessed with the fear of making a mistake. Sometimes he was convinced it was impossible to do anything else, and that if anyone got anything right it was purely by chance.

Pyramidal phenomena occurred in cycles, without it ever being possible to determine precisely the timing of their appearance: for no one has ever been able to establish with certainty whather what happens is the future, or just the past moving backwards, like a crab. People ended up acccepting that maybe neither the past nor the future were what they were thought to be, since both could reverse their direction of travel, like trams at a terminus (p.119).

Fortune's a fickle wench. She can knee you in the groin at any time.

Tebe boli moja patnja i daljina, a mene tvoja neizvjesnost, dok sjediš kraj male svjetiljke; veže nas krv i bol i svaki me udarac boli dvostruko, jer pada i po tvom srcu.

Preda mnom je no? bez sna, nedogledna, jarosna, ubila?ka pustinja. ?ini mi se da je živo bi?e ne?e preživetini videti joj kraja. A meni valja živeti i ?ekati. Živeti sa nadom, u ?ekanju. Pa i bez nade.

Ali, prole?e je. Opet prole?e. Bogat sam, miran, i mogu da ?ekam. Da, ni?eg nije bilo i ni?eg nema, jasnog i sigurnog, ali ništa nije izgubljeno ili isklju?eno, nepovratno i potpuno. Znam da u svetu ima mnogo napola otvorenih prozora u koje kuca prole?ni vetri?, sun?evih odblesaka na metalu i u vodi, praznih sedišta u kupeima, ustalasanih povorki i obasjanih lica u prolazu. Slutim i hiljade drugih i nepoznatih mogu?nosti i prilika.

Dünyan?n bir taraf?nda bir yerde, bir piyango çekiliyor, sava? yap?l?yor ve hepimizin al?nyaz?s? da böylece uzak­larda belirtiliyordu.

Umetnost je nesiguran poziv koji nit 'hrani nit' brani onog ko mu se oda. Put umetnosti uopšte je neizvestan, varljiv i težak, a igra je ponajteža i najvarljivija od svih umetnosti, ?ak ozloglašena i opasna stvar.