Quotes About Uncertainty

a form of waiting that, depending on the circumstances, can resemble fascination, terror, curiosity, or hope.

So on my fiftieth birthday, deep within myself I had but one wicked wish—for something would tear me away from all these guarantees and comforts, that would necessitate my not merely continuing, but my starting anew." When he wrote those lines in 1941, Zweig had already decided to kill himself,

Le doute méthodique est d'ordinaire le signe d'une bonne santé mentale : c'est pourquoi des soldats harassés, au coeur trouble ne pouvaient le pratiquer

Ce n'est pas facile de faire du doute son métier. On se brûle vite à côtoyer l'essentiel, et j'imagine qu'on se sent tellement soulagé quand on y renonce. Mais en refusant le doute, on est certain de se priver de la vérité.

The important thing is to make a decision," he said. "Make what decision?" "One that will enable you to live in the present instead of constantly wondering what the future will be like.

Predictions are difficult to make, particularly when they concern the future." —Pierre Dac

For Sanji, like any foreigner, a moment of uncertainty ensued. Would he be singled out for his appearance, led into an interrogation room, and sent back home for any number of reasons? The officer finally stamped his passport, scribbled the date by which he had to leave the United States, and told him to move along.

Freedom is a huge risk, and while most people aspire to attain it, they don't know how to put it to use.

Quizá contestes a esta postal, quizá encuentre una carta tuya cuando vuelva a casa, quizá vengas a buscarme. Me parece que estoy harto de tanto "quizá".

Demain est un mystère, pour tout le monde, et ce mystère doit provoquer le rire et l'envie, pas la peur ou le refus.

Mia didn't know what she wanted, but she knew what she didn't want any more. The waiting, the silence, the suspicion. She wanted to rediscover her appetite for life and to stop waking up with her stomach in knots.

But then again, what do I know. I project. Then I judge.

I was with her for about six years before I asked her to marry me, which only means one thing: I shouldn't have done it! If you wait six years to get engaged, you are on the fence.

In spite of the escalation, there was as yet no sense of an impending crisis.

king who had sons by more than one woman, leading to uncertainty about which of them would succeed him.

there's no solution, because there's no problem

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.

Le risoluzioni definitive si prendono sempre e soltanto per uno stato d'animo che non è destinato a durare.

but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty.

We must have imagination, awakened by the uncertainty of being able to attain our object, to create a goal which hides our other goal from us, and by substituting for sensual pleasures the idea of penetrating into a life prevents us from recognizing that pleasure, from tasting it true savor, from restricting it to its own range.

I did not distinguish the successive theories of which that uncertainty was composed any more than, when we watch a horse running, we isolate the successive positions of its body as they appear upon a bioscope. But

For a young man has strong imagination but poor judgment, so that he imagines others to be as big as he is but considers himself to be very small. He has unbounded trust in the universe but is constantly unsure of himself.