Quotes About Uncertainty

There's been terrible things we seen, en't there? And more a coming, more'n likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in the future. I'll stick to the present.

I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't.

Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries.

You know, it isn't really surprising that there are things about ourselves that still remain a mystery to us," he said. "Maybe we should be comforted that the knowledge is there, even if it's withheld for a while.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know

She turned away. Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries. But they weren't alone. So Lyra and her dæmon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

All the time I was away, Lyra said, I never thought about that. All I thought about was just the time I was in, just the present. There were plenty of times when I thought I didn't get a future at all. And now... Well, suddenly finding I've got a whole life to live, but no...but no idea what to do with it, well, it's like having the alethiometer but no idea how to read it.

The wave function of this situation is going to collapse quite soon.

To ask the question and wait for the answer is to know that there will be no answer.

One strange thing about stories is that you sometimes know how long they're going to be, even before you've begun thinking about them.

There's been terrible things we seen, en't there? And more a-coming, more'n likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in the future. I'll stick to the present.' 'Yeah,' said Lyra wearily. 'There's times I feel like that too.

All these things that are changing…like ice breaking under your feet.

Detrás de ellos había dolor, muerte, miedo; delante estaba el peligro, insondables misterios. Pero no estaban solos.

Voltò le spalle. Dietro di loro c'erano dolore, morte e terrore; davanti dubbio, pericolo e misteri insondabili. Ma non erano soli. Così Lyra e il suo daimon voltarono le spalle al mondo in cui erano nati, e guardarono verso il sole e camminarono nel cielo.

Las afirmaciones de identidad no están libres de consecuencias. Limitan tanto como robustecen. Para mí, prefiero no tener una de esas identidades sencillas y públicas. No sé lo que soy, y no me apetece especialmente saberlo.

People don't like the uncanny, and rather than look fully at something disturbing, they'll avoid it altogether.

then?" Tialys asked Will. "What then? Well

Suppose it never stops? she whispered. The gyptian man didn't say it'd do that. Just that there was going to be a flood. It feels as if it's going on forever. There isn't enough water in all the world to do that. Eventually it'll stop and the sun'll come out. Every flood stops in the end and goes down.

He couldn't possibly have said why. He knew it at once, as strongly as he knew that fire burned and kindness was good.

Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries. But they weren't alone. So Lyra and her dæmon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked towards the sun, and walked into the sky.

He picked up a book that lay on the floor. "Are you reading this?" he said. It was Simon Talbot's The Constant Deceiver. "Yes," she said. "I'm not sure about it." "That should please him.

and it would all go back to the way it used to be. At the same time, he knew it wouldn't, but he had to hold on to something in the dark nights, and imagination was all he had.

We live our lives between magic and panic.

Anything can happen to anyone, but it usually doesn't. Except when it does.