Quotes About Uncertainty

He thought maybe she was having second thoughts. Rightly so, considering what he planned to do to her.

He found himself struck by a sudden fear that something might happen to him in the future that would destroy his memory. Some kind of disease or mental breakdown.

Walter suddenly became aware of a strange chill seeping into his lower body.

What if he did just that? What if he went through the gate?

He knew he would be crazy to take that kind of risk, but he'd also be crazy not to.

In the middle of a war you think of nothing but how it will end. And put off living. When large numbers of people do that, it creates a vacuum within us which the war flows in to fill.

Where can I go. Is it possible to imagine a world, a time, where I would have a place. There's no one I could ask. That's the answer.

Adolescence is a time of uncertainty, stuffed with expectations and glazed with rebellion

As to the last question, the present situation allows no prediction. One can simply say that there seems to be no objective reason for assuming that hominization has reached an unsurpassable summit.

Es gibt so Momente, in denen ich alles genau verstehe, [...] und dann plötzlich entgleitet mir wieder alles.

Das hat mich nicht traurig gemacht, damals, aber irgendwie hat es das doch. Ich weiß auch nicht wieso.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

A risky plan, but what is life without risk, eh?

It is arrogance to believe you can know all things. Perhaps you are right. But perhaps you are not.

This is like telling a person who has leapt off a cliff to be careful. I am already in midair.

We are headed toward the unknown, and we have no choice but to sit quietly in our hard seats and let ourselves be taken there.

This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting

She felt her fear unspooling like a tight fist opening. It was as if she'd been standing on a precipice and suddenly tipped forward. There was no point in feeling afraid. She was already falling, falling through the air, and her future, whatever it held, was rushing up to meet her.

Regret?" Vivian raises her shoulders in a shrug. "I'm not sure what good it is to regret.

I am halfway between two worlds, the known and the unknown. I feel as transparent as the wind, as if my spirit is hovering in the sky, waiting to land. I am driving toward a future I can't see, leaving behind a past that already feels distant. Nothing is clear - and yet the trees are sharp against the sky; I can see the hard outlines of everything.

Only the good Lord knows what's going to happen, and He ain't telling.

My hands are clammy. It's a terrible kind of anticipation, not knowing what we're walking into. The last time I felt this way I was in the waiting rooms at Ellis Island.

My hands are clammy. It's a terrible kind of anticipation, not knowing what we're walking into. The last time I felt this way I was in the waiting rooms at Ellis Island. We were tired, and Mam wasn't well, and we didn't know where we were going or what kind of life we would have. But now I can see all I took for granted: I had a family. I believed that whatever happened, we'd be together. A policeman blows a whistle

She didn't have a compass, a map, or even a decent sense of direction. She wasn't certain she would recognize herself.