Quotes About Uncertainty

Ev­ery phone call I get fills me with joy and ter­ror since this could be the case­work­er or the killer.

The whole world is a dis­as­ter wait­ing to hap­pen.

I have no idea where they're go­ing with this.

But Rachel knows this isn't true. Nobody can stop anything. The people will always be humping next door. The burning cat will always be rocketing like a comet around every house in which they ever live. Nothing will ever be resolved.

My point is I know Brandy is maybe probably going to die, but I just can't get into it.

Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.

I don't know who to believe, all I know is my feathers are on fire.

To stand here and try to fix her life is just a big waste of time. People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Every place is the same place in the dark.

Debes tener en cuenta la posibilidad de no caerle bien a Dios. Pudiera ser que Dios nos odiara. No es lo peor que podría ocurrir.

The doorman leaned into my shoulder and said, A lot of young people don't know what they really want.

Me has conocido en un momento extraño de mi vida

The cancer I don't have is everywhere, now.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Lyme disease, meningitis, rheumatic fever, syphilis.

I liked it better when you couldn't be so sure. When terrifying rumors were distant enough to be a UFO at the bottom of Loch Ness. When the horribly compelling train-wreck tragedies of less fortunate people's lives were only as real as you let them be. Just a cover of a magazine, a black-and-white photo on some late-night commercial for a charity. Now confirmation is just a mouse click away.

In Miss Chen's English class, we learned, 'To be or not to be...' but there's a big gray area in between. Maybe in Shakespeare times people only had two options. Griffin Wilson, he knew that the SATs were just the gateway to a big lifetime of bullshit. To get married and college. To paying taxes and trying to raise a kid who's not a school shooter. And Griffin Wilson knew drugs are only a patch. After drugs, you're always going to need more drugs.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything.

My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what? My dad didn't know. When I got a job and turned twenty-five, long distance, I said, now what? My dad didn't know, so he said, get married. I'm a thirty-year-old boy, and I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer I need.

Every direction I could see to go was just a different nightmare.

When did the future, Ellis once wrote on the back of a postcard, switch from being a promise to a threat?

What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us.

La gente non vuole rimettere in sesto la propria vita. Nessuno vuole che i suoi problemi vengano risolti. I suoi drammi. Le sue distrazioni. Le sue storie risolte. I suoi casini ripuliti. Perché, che cosa mai le rimarrebbe? Solamente il grande spaventoso inconoscibile.