Quotes About Uncertainty

The world's first task, as I knew well, a task it never relaxed from, was to undo me. I was even afraid of the sky.

Siempre fui un nadie bien definido cuya mayor ansia fue ser un alguien indefinido.

She had that look - scared and sort of paralysed but frantic underneath - that girls got when they could think of only the one thing. It was a look that told him it would be her first time.

What has this new generation to offer the world? Only the fruits of their fear.

A wi?c, panie doktorze - odezwa?a si? troch? za g?o?no, radosnym, zdecydowanym tonem gwiazdy filmowej z lat czterdziestych - to wyrok ?mierci czy do?ywocie?

The policeman insists that there be a plot. However, life itself is plotless.

For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion .

Unhappily, things get clearer as we go along. I perceive that I have no body. What's less, I've been speaking of myself without delight or alternative as self-consciousness pure and sour; I declare now that even that isn't true. I'm not aware of myself at all, as far as I know. I don't think. . . I know what I'm talking about.

Having poured my drink, I may not live to taste it, or that it may pass a live man's tongue to burn a dead man's belly; that having slumbered, I may never wake, or having waked, may never living sleep. Having heard tick, will I hear tock? Having served, will I volley? Having sugared will I cream? Having eithered, will I or? Itching, will I scratch? Hemming, will I haw?

There is no way to master the fact with which I live.

I hope I'm a fiction without real hope.

Only a wittol is certain he's been cuckolded or not

Complex faith does not kill giants. It imprisons us in "wonder" land where we try to figure out what we cannot change and hesitate to make any move.

BECOMES A NIGHTMARE

faith says, I trust You even though I don't understand.

He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.

the ground for I know not how long. Of course

Anything is possible," I said. "But most things are unlikely.

If there's one thing I've learned in more than seven decades of life, it's that the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never know what's around the corner and it's often something unpleasant.

He put his face to the glass and saw what was out there, and this time when his eyes opened wide and his mouth made the shape of an O, his hands stayed by his sides because something made him feel very cold and unsafe.

What are you playing?" I asked him. "War." "Is that a game?" "It's the best game in the world." "And are you winning?" "I won't know till it's over." "And perhaps not even then.

the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never know what's around the corner and it's often something unpleasant.

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.

Defeasible beliefs provide the provisional certainty necessary to navigate an uncertain world.