Quotes About Uncertainty

We've just lost cabin pressure. I ask Marla what my name is. We're all going to die.

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

Onun hayat?n? kurtarmaya çal??mak büyük bir zaman kayb?. Ä°nsanlar hayatlar?n?n kurtar?lmas?n? istemiyor. Dramlar?n?n. Önemsiz meselelerinin. Hikayelerinin çözümlenmesini, pisliklerinin temizlenmesini istemiyorlar. Çünkü geriye ne kalaca??n? biliyorlar, Büyük ve korkunç bir bilinmeyen.

Bize inand?r?lan bu gerçek d??? dünyada ya??yoruz, hiçbir teste tabii tutulmad???m?z için neleri kurtarabileceÄŸimiz konusunda hiç bir fikrimiz yok

Gelecek ne zamandan beri vaat olmaktan ç?k?p tehdit unsuru haline geldi.

Hell, nobody's okay. Maybe we never were, and we damn sure aren't now. But we're here. Until we're not. And that's all I find it fair to ask for.

I don't know what I'm doing here, either. I suspect that the moment I have it figured out, I'll probably die half a second later.

People like the illusion of choice. Gives them comfort in these strange times.

Your best authorial self is always one about to ruin the story.

The future is suddenly unpinned—evolving, spinning, leaping about like a panicked tree-loormor.

Life is equal parts strange and beautiful and horrible, and we're tossed into it without a map or an instruction guide. Poems and stories have a way of helping us make sense of things.

Way she sees it, people fall into one of two categories: those who think their death is imminent, and those who figure they have long, healthy lives ahead of them. Nobody ever thinks it's somewhere in-between.

We'll find a way forward. On this. I know we've hit a wall. It's not Trypanosoma, it's not flu, it's not anything. I trust this team. We'll find a breakthrough very soon, Doctor Ray." They had no idea how true that was.

The times we live in often dictate the type of entertainment we seek -- and we're starting to slide once more into a very dark and scary corner of American life.

You don't know what you're doing," Mitchell says. "Poking a stick into a den of snakes." "Poke-poke, motherfuckers." Atlanta pulls the trigger.

It is useless to know what shall come to pass; it is a miserable thing to be tormented to no purpose.

There are times in our life when we don't know the direct outcome of our prayers, and the enemy wants us to think that God didn't hear us or didn't care. This is never the case, of course, even if we don't see immediate answers or the outcomes we anticipate.

You think you know what the Department of Defense is spending? The Department of Defense doesn't even know what the Department of Defense is spending.

Your problem, my darling daughter, is that you're afraid you're going to miss something. But what you don't realize is that, by not making a decision, you're missing it all.

There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best--or even a less bad--answer.

You get to middle school, and you think about these things. The world opens up; history stretches behind you, and the future stretches before you, and you're suddenly aware of the wild, unknowable interior lives of everyone around you, the realization that each and every person lives in an unspoken world as full and strange as your own, and that you can't ever hope entirely to know anything, not even yourself.

It continued to amaze me how the touch of skin on skin had altered things: curled in the crook of his arm, my head upon his breast, I'd sensed his heart beating and for a moment hadn't been sure whether it was mine.

I wanted him to reassure me, and when I saw he wasn't going to, I thought, This is when the shit hits the fan.

and of course, you can't ever really know what happens to another person, or what they think happens to them, which amounts to the same thing.