Quotes About Uncertainty

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

Tuhan tahu, tapi menunggu .....

También nos decimos adiós, sólo por si no volvemos a vernos nunca.

Anyway, I guess I should have seen it coming. It's like every time things start to look okay in my crazy life, something always comes along to change it. It's like it just falls out of

Do you see how preoccupied everyone has been? This perspective explains a lot. How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can't slow down? They can't slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.

creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remains—we can't know.

They can't slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.

How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can't slow down? They can't slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live

A what, now?

of courage and security from every sod of it would have evaporated beyond recall. We should be irrevocably cut

Maybe he should turn around. Go back and tell them that's what life was, a long series of things that didn't go down the way you thought they would. Hell with it. Either they'd figure it out or they wouldn't. Most people never did.

His devotion is complete; he is beginning to sense the confusion that arises from the first fears of what life would be like without her. He knows there can be such a thing, but like the answer to a difficult problem, he cannot imagine it.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution.

Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.

Por qué no le preguntó usted como era que se encontraba allí con el? Encendí un cigarro y contesté: - Señora, tenía miedo de que desapareciera de repente

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.15

Still, some things were out of anyone's control.

Love is seldom what you expect

And she knew she was not sure, she would never be sure, because uncertainty is the essence of the human condition, and death is the one barrier beyond which we cannot see. There is no hope but faith, no knowledge but the acceptance of ignorance. Yet still she hoped that one day she would know.