Quotes About Uncertainty

I don't disbelieve in anything, Mr. Hatch," and The Thinking Machine regarded the newspaper man quietly. "I don't even disbelieve in what is broadly termed the supernatural-I merely don't know. It

To know what your partner will do is not a proof of love.

Le Temps nous égare ! Le Temps nous étreint ! Le Temps nous est gare ! Le Temps nous est train ?

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

Pues eso no se sabe nunca –dijo el genio Vargas Llosa–. La amistad, como todo, es tan relativa, ¿no?

Only children entertain the fantasy that adults know how and why everything works. Being an adult is accepting the not knowing.

She wanted to make sure she studied all the manuals thoroughly, but she had to admit that part of her hesitation was the unsettling length of the list of things that could go wrong if she mishandled the pressure.

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamp-light. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.

I was afraid of the dead, as was everyone I knew. We were afraid of the dead because we never could tell when they might show up again.

I was numb, but it was from not knowing just what this new life would hold for me.

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

To be or not to be, is being here in the now if you are not here now, you are not in the now. Since we are sure about now to be here now, but not later. And since, there are no guarantees in life. All that we have is the now to be here, or not to be here. Given, that the evil forces of death will sign our death warrant to be or to not to be."

How the hell should I know? I'm just a grunt.

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.

But he did not ask, and his uncle did not speak except to say, after a few minutes, "It's time to go home," and all the way home they walked in silence.

I believe nothing. Nothing whatever.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Quando sei malinconica, quando sei arrabbiata, quando sei contro, quando sei piena di «forse», di «se», di «ma» e di «però», a che cosa aderisci? A niente, tendenzialmente a niente, e dunque sbagli: ti depauperi, ti svuoti. E, infatti, ciò che si incrementa è la solitudine.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.