Quotes About Uncertainty

This thought has always filled me with terror: that I might be one of those people, that I might be only one of those people.

And every time, he concentrates on the query of the latest interlocutor, his eyes staring, his chin quivering, his neck twisting in an effort to keep pending and in plain view all the other unresolved queries, with the mournful patience of overnervous people and the ultrasonic nervousness of overpatient people.

If at any point something goes askew, then disorder spreads, chaos opens beneath our feet.

L'Abate passò il resto dei suoi giorni tra carcere e convento in continui atti d'abiura, finché non morì, senza aver capito, dopo una vita intera dedicata alla fede, in che cosa mai credesse, ma cercando di credervi fermamente fino all'ultimo.

In other words, nobody really knew anything.

For awhile now, everything has been going wrong for me; it seems to me that in the world there now exists only stories that remain suspended or get lost along the way.

Leer es ir al encuentro de algo que está a punto de ser y aún nadie sabe qué será.

Ci voleva poco acume per indovinare che quella lunga disquisizione sulla vecchiaia non significava altro che il mio timore che trovandomi in corsa traverso il tempo, non potessi più essere raggiunto dall'amore. Pareva gridassi all'amore: «Vieni, vieni!» Invece non sono sicuro di aver voluto quell'amore e, se v'è un dubbio, risulta solo dal fatto che so di aver scritto circa così.

Chissà se l'amo? È un dubbio che m'accompagnò per tutta la vita e oggidì posso pensare che l'amore accompagnato da tanto dubbio sia il vero amore.

Was there even any way it sounded legal? The past casts a tricky shadow, I was discovering.

That vague, crepuscular time, the time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth has passed, but old age has not yet arrived.

The courage not to believe in anything.

There are no big stories left, just paths through the clutter and the inevitable soft landing.

getting lost is not always a bad thing

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.

Kamers horen absolute zekerheden te zijn. De manier waarop zij in elkaar overlopen hoort eens en voor altijd vast te liggen. Een deur moet geopend kunnen worden. Niet in angst en onzekerheid omdat je geen idee hebt wat je erachter zult vinden.

idea of a husband who could be killed any moment made

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

good decision-making is the key to good outcomes. Reject absolute answers and recognize uncertainty. Weigh the probabilities. Don't let uncertainty paralyze you. And evaluate decisions not just on the results, but on how they are made." 1

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.