Quotes About Uncertainty

But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

She is not listening. If she could hear words like that she would not be getting down from this wagon, with that belly and that fan and that little bundle, alone, bound for a place she never saw before and hunting for a man she ain't going to ever see again and that she has already seen one time too many as it is.

a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change.

I feel better! I feel! I feel!" until he quit that too and said quietly, looking at the familiar wall, the familiar twin door through which he was about to pass, with tragic and passive clairvoyance: "Something is going to happen to me.

That's what throws a man off—that extra alternative. Just when he has come to realize that living consists in choosing wrongly between two alternatives, to have to choose among three.

You mean you won't?" he said. "You mean, you won't?" It was very much like it had been in the school house: someone holding

The dead air shapes the dead earth in the dead darkness, further away than seeing shapes the dead earth. It lies dead and warm upon me, touching me naked through my clothes. I said You dont know what worry is. I dont know what it is. I dont know whether I am worrying or not. Whether I can or not. I dont know whether I can cry or not. I dont know whether I have tried to or not. I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

I said You don't know what worry is. I don't know what it is. I don't know whether I am worrying or not. Whether I can or not. I don't know whether I can cry or not. I don't know whether I have tried to or not. I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

é difícil acreditar que um amor ou uma dor é uma debênture comprada sem intenção e que vence querendo ou não e é recolhida sem aviso prévio para ser substituída pelo título que os deuses resolverem emitir no momento não você só vai fazer isso quando acreditar que nem mesmo ela era merecedora do desespero talvez

Esto, esto es lo que trataba de decir: que cuando algo es nuevo, difícil y brillante, es mucho mejor que si solo es seguro, pues lo seguro, las cosas seguras son precisamente las que la gente ha estado haciendo tanto tiempo, que sus bordes están ya gastados y no hay nada ya en ellas que permita decir a un hombre: «Esto no se había hecho antes y no puede ser hecho otra vez».

If there is a God what the hell is He for?

The lust of summer gone, the sun made its visits shorter and more uncertain, appearing to the city with that discomfited reserve that sense of duty of the lover who no longer loves.

Conspiracy theory's got to be simple. Sense doesn't come into it. People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy.

I'm away for a while. But there's no cash on the premises, no drugs, and the pitbull's tested positive. Twice.

He'd lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he'd almost forgotten what real fear was.

Stability is the beginning of the end. We only walk by continually beginning to fall forward.

The world hadn't ever had so many moving parts or so few labels.

Don't anticipate outcome," the man said. "Await the unfolding of events. Remain in the moment.

The drivers for the jackpot are still in place, but with less torque at that particular point." He took a seat at the table. "They're still a bit in advance of the pandemics, at least.

Statistically, almost nobody ever wins the lottery. Statistically, terrorist attacks almost never happen.

We have no future because our present is too volatile.

the moment, Rydell decided he knew for a fact his ass was lost. Just plain lost.

Pretty soon the crash would come on, and before then she'd have to figure out a way to get back to the hotel, and suddenly it seemed like everything was too complicated, too many things to do, angles to figure, and that was the crash, when you had to start worrying about putting the day side together again.

People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy.