Quotes About Uncertainty

I may not be confident or ambitious but at least I'm not confident and ambitious

He asked if there were more things she had lied about. She said she had to think. She said she was still thinking. After about two minutes she said she was still thinking.

A cool thing is that stuff can always get worse and it usually does

most days, a keen, gray energy (this deadened sort of voltage--something of the faux-sophistication, low-grade restlessness, and, in that she often had the urge to stop walking and curl against a building and sleep there and freeze to death, a passive-aggressive sort of suicidal despair) would move through her (though some afternoons around her, uncertainly, like she might be in the way, and then she'd just feel indistinct and hungry).

Feel certain that I will die of sudden and incurable obesity within the next week

At some point, Paul vaguely realized, technology had begun for him to mostly only indicate the inevitability and vicinity of nothingness. Instead

Sick with the impossibility of it all, with the reality of how small a person is. How at any second you can get struck down by a bullet or a tree; how a person can look so very tiny against the world, how each of us is nothing more than a speck

Loss of control lies at the core of the vulnerability pattern. The distinctive emotional signature of vulnerability is an exaggerated fear that some catastrophe is about to strike.

to failure." Playing it safe requires that we avoid risky situations—which covers pretty much all of life.

But Radical Acceptance also means not overlooking another important truth: the endless creativity and possibility that exist in living. By accepting the truth of change, accepting that we don't know how our life will unfold, we open ourselves to hope so that we can move forward with vitality and will.

Fear is the anticipation of future pain. The

Što manje znaš šta si ti, više se plašiš onoga što nisi ti.

We are ignorant of the fundamental nature of the way things exist, and we feel anxiety because of this.

new France. I pity them, and I fear what lies ahead.

There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.

Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic life.

When a spectral voice says, get out, you should do it. But in real life, you don't know that you're in a scary movie.

Life is full of things you never figured on.

It's hard to mark time when your heart is a pinball in your chest.

It was hard being behind bars when I turned thirty-five, but would it have been so hard if somebody told me that the next year I would be a free man? Time can't always be measured with a watch or a calendar or even grains of sand.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Once he said to his mother, "Do not ask me what is wrong with me, for I do not know. When I reach into my mind I encounter nothing but

Ay de nosotros! ¡Hemos llegado a conocer unos tiempos en que hasta la vista de nuestros propios soldados nos causa temor.

Cómo podría recobrar la seguridad y el aplomo de mi juventud? El mundo es demasiado para nosotros. No sólo destruye nuestra juventud, sino nuestra certidumbre.