Quotes About Uncertainty

It's like a haunted house we can't leave,' Neil said. A haunted house we're afraid to leave, Tony thought.

Staring down at my trembling hands, I wonder many things.

I wonder if I will die, after all.

It was the time of night when the odd feeling of not being quite in focus comes and goes, and all things are mysterious.

Trust is risk, and risk avoidance is the name of the game in business. ~ Tom West. 130-131

What? I ask. I don't get anything about this day. Everything is just off. Are you sure? Am I sure where I live? Yeah. Steeple Drive. Your cabin is on this road? Is it just me, or is everything I'm saying slightly freaking you out?

Part of me doesn't even know if we're together. I mean, we are-she likes me, and I want to run off to Mexico with her. So yeah, that's together, right? I guess I don't need a ring or anything.

Most people would not open a door unless they knew what lay beyond, and even if they opened the door by mistake, they would find an uninteresting room beyond.

Of course there are risks – there are risks to everything a magician does." - Lorkin

All we can hope for is that, whatever the outcome, the people we care about survive and escape." - Dannyl

Do I dare. Disturb the universe?

She sighed. 'But it's not that simple, you know, really it isn't. It's not really him, you know. I mean not really the person. It's everything, it's everywhere. So where do you break out to? You're just one person and it's everywhere. So where do you break out to? I don't know, Tambu, really I don't know. So what do you do? I don't know.

You play crotch roulette, you're gonna hit double zero once in a while.

I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and I presume he himself did not know, moved as he was solely by the desire for truth, and by the suspicion - which I could see he always harbored - that the truth was not what was appearing to him at any given moment.

Therefore you don't have a single answer to your questions?" "Adso, if I did I would teach theology in Paris." "In Paris do they always have the true answer?" "Never," William said, "but they are very sure of their errors.

Will we be happier afterwards? Or will be have lost the freshness of those who are privileged to experience art as real life, where we enter after the trumps have been played, and we leave without knowing who's going to win or lose the game?

The others believed me wise because I won, but they didn't know the many instances in which I have been foolish because I lost, and they didn't know that a few seconds before winning I wasn't sure I wouldn't lose.

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.

As the Chinese said, to curse someone: "May you live in an interesting period.

Mas talvez naquele momento ele não tenha sido capaz de nenhum cálculo,o grito que lhe saiu da boca era o grito de sua alma e nele e com ele descarregava anos de longos e secretos remorsos.Ou seja,após uma vida de incertezas,entusiasmos e desilusões,vilezas e traições,posto diante da inelutabilidade de sua ruína,ele decidia professar a fé de sua juventude,sem mais perguntar se era justa ou errada,mas para mostrar a si mesmo que era capaz de alguma fé.

Yo sospecho, sospecho siempre.

But evidence is not enough for those who want to live in a horror novel.

Nadie nos exige que sepamos, Adso. Hay que saber, eso es todo, aun a riesgo de equivocarse.

Adiós, Guillermo, eres un inglés loco y arrogante, pero tienes un gran corazón, ¿Volveremos a vernos? —Sin duda —lo tranquilizó Guillermo—, Dios lo querrá. Pero Dios no lo quiso.