Quotes About Uncertainty

Molto più tardi avrei imparato che il pensiero non si affaccia spontaneamente alla porta del nascosto. Non basta voler penetrare nell'inconscio perché la mente venga dietro. Il pensiero temporeggia, va avanti poi indietro, esita, sta in agguato ma poi quando viene il momento giusto, si ferma davanti alla porta come un cane da punta, rimane paralizzato. Poi, è il padrone che deve far alzare la selvaggina.

I had no idea how to find work I'd love doing. Even the idea of trying felt wildly irresponsible.

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

One day it happens: what you have feared all your life, the unendurably specific, the exact thing. No matter what you say or do.

Fate has decreed no stability, only short-lived prosperity, unendurable adversity, now success, now failure.' John Skelton

rien n'est plus triste qu'un retour de l'école à quatre heures de l'après-midi quand c'est déjà la nuit dans la ville et qu'on ne sait pas où l'on va dans la neige, mais on entend les gratte-neige tout près et on se dit qu'ils pourraient nous broyer tout rond

Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you, and some days you cannot even find the woods.

But the more I see of the damage simplistic thinking can do, the more I admire and cling to John Keats's notion of "negative capability" which he defined as the capacity to dwell in ambiguity or paradox without any "irritable reaching after fact and reason." To allow room for wonder, speculation, uncertainty.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

It's not so sure that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear ... . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

We have created a world we don't like, don't understand and don't trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.

how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist

I think a lot of people are really scared right now. Not every person makes good choices, and sometimes, when people are scared, there are people who try to take advantage of that fear.

Ne wonders what it is like to burn, staring at one's ending right around the corner, and yet not knowing how the end will come, when one will be fully consumed by the void.

My heart's a dance of fear.

The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.

The man was bearing down on me. My hands were limp and wet. Please, I thought. Please. Who was I addressing? The man? God? Whoever handled these things.

You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.

Corporate terrorism is psychological warfare. Corporate terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

I'm not afraid of death really, just what comes after.

Sometimes I fear those noisy words boiling in an unsettling cauldron.

Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does.

She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow. Her heart beat so hard and so loudly she was scared it would burst out of her chest.

Darkness is but a door, scary not because it opens, but out of fear that it will never close