Quotes About Uncertainty

BELIEF IS NOT AN INTELLECTUAL MATTER," he complained. "IF HE'S GOT SO MUCH DOUBT, HE'S IN THE WRONG BUSINESS.

I remember you as a little boy," she told me, not long ago, "but when I look at you now, I don't know who you are." I told her I occasionally had the same feeling about myself.

You're always telling me I don't have any faith," I wrote to Owen. "Well—don't you see?—that's a part of what makes me so indecisive. I wait to see what will happen next—because I don't believe that anything I might decide to do would matter.

Cho? ju? tyle razy prze?y?em m?k? i ?mier? Chrystusa, nieodmiennie niepokoj? si? o Jego zmartwychwstanie - jestem przera?ony, ?e w tym roku si? to nie uda.

In the World according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.

Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith's opposite.

No es buen momento para un terremoto," Lupe used to say. "It's not a good moment for an earthquake.

Some unexplainable things are real.

we tend to think that if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are.

Was he nice? He didn't know. He hoped he was, but how many of us truly know?

but when I look at you now, I don't know who you are." I told her I occasionally had the same feeling about myself.

So that's what it means to be a nonpracticing homosexual, I thought: it means I don't know what I am!

Unrevised, real life is just a mess.

Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.

It's what all the great agents do: they make the most incredible and illogical advice sound reasonable, they make you go ahead without fear, and that way you get it, you get more or less what you want, or you get something, anyway; at least you don't end up with nothing when you go ahead without fear, when you lunge into the darkness as if you were operating on the soundest advice in the world.

Maybe that's part of why people on Gorse live as they do—because doomsday's coming. But we were told it wouldn't happen for thousands of years, so not to worry." Hera nodded. "But what if it happened tomorrow?

There's no one around to answer all my questions now that Ben's gone. It's a stark fact that continually reasserts itself each time I wonder what I'm supposed to do now. That brown robe he wore might as well have been made of pure mystery; he clothed himself in it and then left nothing else behind on the Death Star. I

All this had happened since Ben's arrival from... where? She still didn't know. Unbelievable.

Is it because they all testify that we are never guaranteed a happy life, only life itself? …

His younger brother looked to him for advice—wisdom—never realizing that older people were almost as uncertain of everything as Billy was, if not more.

And with fear of change perplexes monarchs

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

Nada es estable en el mundo. El tumulto es vuestra única música.

at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason