Quotes About Uncertainty

Los recuerdos de los hombres son inciertos y el pasado que fue difiere muy poco del pasado que no fue.

I told Leonard that reality was at best a collective hunch.

His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it.

Quién está? he said, but no one spoke back. There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.

Rawlins lay watching the stars. After a while he said: I could still be born. I might look different or somethin. If God wanted me to be born I'd be born. And if He didnt you wouldnt. You're makin my goddamn head hurt.

Where do we go when we die? he said. I dont know, the man said. Where are we now?

What are you going to do? I dont know. Wait. For what? I dont know. When will you know? When it gets here.

You will never know what the world is made of. The only thing that's certain is that it's not made of the world. As you close upon some mathematical description of reality you can't help but lose what is being described.

There are no absolutes in human misery, and things can always get worse.

Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.

Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be. The

People dont feel safe no more, he said. We're like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We dont know what's goin to show up here come daylight. We dont even know what color they'll be.

But one's convictions as to the nature of reality must also represent one's limitations as to the perception of it. And then I just stopped worrying about it. I accepted the fact that I would die without really knowing where it was that I had been and that was okay. Well. Almost.

Man dont always catch what he fishes for.

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his own doing.

I dont think people are wrong to be concerned about the world's intentions toward them. There's a lot of bad news out there and some of it is coming to your house. Drowning

We might have very different notions about the nature of the oncoming night. But as darkness descends does it matter?

The drought didnt know when the last one was and nobody knew when the next one was coming.

The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

I don't know what to tell you, he wrote. Much has changed and yet everything is the same. I am the same. I always will be. I'm writing because there are things that I think you would like to know. I am writing because there are things I dont want to forget. Everything is gone from my life except you. I dont even know what that means.

I had trouble with the God thing. A lot of people do.

Todo está bien?

If there is an afterlife - and I pray most fervently that there is not - I can only hope that they wont sing.

Uno nunca sabe qué cosas pone en marcha, dijo. Nadie puede saberlo. No hay profeta capaz de predecirlo. Las consecuencias de una acción son a menudo bastante distintas de lo que uno pensaba. Asegúrese de que lo que le mueve en el fondo del corazón es lo bastante grande como para contener todos los virajes equivocados, todas las decepciones. ¿Ve usted? No todo tiene ese valor.