Quotes About Uncertainty

Uncertainty is real," Byers writes. "It is the dream of total certainty

a distinction that philosophers have proposed between "epistemic" and "aleatory" uncertainty.

No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main strength

Epistemic uncertainty is something you don't know but is, at least in theory, knowable.

Aleatory uncertainty is something you not only don't know; it is unknowable.

They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have told one another freely. Freedom. Where is it now? We are driving it into limbo—their kind. To limbo.

I did not understand then that the bac was the end of us.

Those who have not taken this step, who have not come to terms with themselves, are not necessarily frightened, they are perhaps helpless, disoriented, lost as one is in the middle of a forest that's too dark or dense or vast.

It was at the end of the day, at twilight--the hour we call "between a dog and a wolf.

Cette chambre est un navire. Un marie à bord duquel nous naviguons, sur des mers calmes ou déchainées, à la recherche de rivages paisibles ou accidentés. Il y a des soleils impressionnants et puis des cours de sirocco. Il y a des étendues d'eau à perte de vue et puis, brusquement, la côté. Il y a ce roulis incessant, qui nous berce ou nous secoue, qui nous accompagne toujours. Nous sommes des marins égarés, à bord d'un bateau ivre.

Pour finir, il dit qu'il m'aime et je le crois. Il parle d'une voix épuisée, presque résignée, comme pour un baroud d'honneur. Je l'écoute. Je lui souris faiblement. Je ne lui réponds rien. Je sais qu'il va partir, alors que, lui, l'ignore encore.

Cette chambre est un navire. Un navire à bord duquel nous naviguons, sur des mers calmes ou déchainées, à la recherche de rivages paisibles ou accidentés. Il y a des soleils impressionnants et puis des cours de sirocco. Il y a des étendues d'eau à perte de vue et puis, brusquement, la côté. Il y a ce roulis incessant, qui nous berce ou nous secoue, qui nous accompagne toujours. Nous sommes des marins égarés, à bord d'un bateau ivre.

Las cosas no son blancas ni negras, lo que reina es el gris. Los hombres, sus almas... Pasa lo mismo. Tú eres un alma gris, rematadamente gris, cómo todos nosotros.

Je n'ai jamais su au juste quel est son âge.

el miedo surge cuando descubrimos lo que hasta el día anterior creíamos ignorar.

My destiny no longer has me conquering the highest toowers in the world, but rather the void they protect. This cannot be measured.

extreme divers are exacting and disciplined when they are in the water. They share the paranoiac's conviction that the worst will always try to happen, at the worst possible time.

Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?

Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't.

Everywhere you turned, everything was happening, and everything that was happening took you away from all abstraction and into something human, where answers weren't so easy.

All his novels are unreliable gospels for those who can't be sure of a thing.

Io divoro la mia esistenza con un appetito insaziabile. Come finirà tutto ciò, lo ignoro.

We're all in danger.

Erano indefinibili e questo creava maggior imbarazzo.