Quotes About Uncertainty

Sino alla morte in balia del viaggio

rampole isn't here and nobody knows when she'll be back

This had occurred to me. But for no reason I can dignify with anything higher than the authority of a two-hundred-year-old gut I didn't buy it. "It's possible," I said. "Of course it's possible." "But you don't think so" "No. I'm not sure why." Another silence, her intelligence working. Then a very slight smile. "It's because it would be less romantic," she said.

One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous.

I'm suddenly beginning to wonder if all this war is worth it.

She only knew that there was something she did not know.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

In truth, we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.

We're also learning that the most dangerous time often comes after a victory.

As he always said, "If I don't know what will happen tomorrow, it could be wonderful!

All of which is only to explain how I came by a piece of equipment that most writers have to acquire one way or another: an unusual tolerance, even a preference, for instability. Not that they don't suffer from being unsure of next year's plans or this month's rent. They do. But, unlike many people, they can live with it.

He took comfort in not knowing about the future.

The nature and specifics of the negative depend on the part of the country and the year, but the common thread is: self-doubt.

we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But

If I don't know what will happen tomorrow, it could be wonderful.

Having lived his life in the belief that something great could be just around every corner, did he realize for the first time that no more corners could be turned? p.18

Yet, I doubt he would have chosen such a risky life if he hadn't been fleeing an orderly one.

It is hard to give up what you know for what you don't know.

I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.

I have qualms and wonder what a qualm would look like if you painted it -- probably like a bowl of melting ice cream or a dish of Jell-o just before it sets.

We are at more risk of waiting for opportunity while, without our knowledge, it awaits us and at less risk of waiting for opportunity while it remains beyond our reach.

Está rodeado de pessoas esquisitas, as quais realmente não compreendo. Não têm aparência de espertalhões, nem de gente honesta. Às vezes parecem-me honestas, mas não consigo confiar nelas.

All our learned schoolmasters and tutors are agreed that children do not know why they want what they want. But no one likes to think - blindingly obvious though it is, in my view - that grown-ups too, like children, totter around on the earth and, like the children, do not know where they have come from or where they are going, act no more than children do for any true purpose and are just as governed by biscuits, cakes, and the rod.

And I run after this phantom of the mind till it leads me to an abyss I shudder back from.