Quotes About Uncertainty

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn't know how things played out.

But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?

How confusing. Could it be that our narrator is unreliable? No such chance. Mind like a steel trap, I have.

If there were any seeds of doubt in my mind as to whether I really loved Adam or just some image of Adam, they were all killed by the frost that was tonight's dinner party. No, wait, that sounds like it was some cold, deadly evening. I mean the opposite. I guess I mean that if the flower of my love for Adam wass being stunted by any feelings of doubt, then tonight fully fertilized my seed and allowed it to grow. That works if you don't think about the face that fertilizer is made if shit.

She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters.

Gwen was determined to screw it up, but had not yet seen how.

Maybe, Gwen said, instead of yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.

One of the things that confuses me is never really knowing when something comes up from my past, whether it really happened that way, or if that was the way it seemed to be at the time, or if I'm inventing it. I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

Who's to say death is better than your darkness?

I want you to understand this mite fale and then nothing woud happen at all. Or it mite even sucseed temperary and leeve you werse off then you are now.

And I waited, as a blasphemer waits for lightning. I looked away.

I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had.

Cada passo em frente era um cuidado. Em que ponto o chão cederia e me afundaria em ansiedade?

It doesn't matter what he thinks of himself. Sure he's egotistic, so what? It takes that kind of ego to make a man attempt a thing like this. I've seen enough of men like him to know that mixed in with that pompousness and self-assertion is a goddamned good measure of uncertainty and fear.

Sometimes I wonder: Do I want to gel well? Is all this fear, all this shit I'm going through now worth it? Or should I bury myself back here in the brain and forget about it?" "What's your answer?" "I don't know.

I can't shake the crazy feeling that there is some small thing that we're being lied to about.

you never really know how to handle a problem until you actually have it.

WE NOW KNOW TWO HIGHLY important things about people," Ishmael said, "at least according to Taker mythology. One, there's something fundamentally wrong with them, and, two, they have no certain knowledge about how they ought to live—and never will have any. It seems as though there should be a connection between these two things.

Rachel tried to slap Mrs. Samuels when she said this, but she wasn't really sure where her face was and she missed, terribly.

Sometimes the butterflies were there just to make you queasy; sometimes the butterflies were there to let you know that something good was on its way

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.