Quotes About Uncertainty

Do you think you're the only one groping? We're all in the dark together. Wait until God please to clear the sky.

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.

It is odd, the twists that life will sometimes take. The ewe that you think will give birth with ease dies bringing forth a two-headed lamb. Or the ski trail that you have been told is treacherous, you navigate easily.

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door. But you also get kind of used to it.

once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

As she lay there she said to herself that there was something she must tell Selden, some word she had found that should make life clear between them. She tried to repeat the word, which lingered vague and luminous on the far edge of thought—she was afraid of not remembering it when she woke; and if she could only remember it and say it to him, she felt that everything would be well.

Only, I wonder - the thing one's so certain of in advance; can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

All these sights, sounds and sensations, so familiar in themselves, so unutterably strange and meaningless in his new relation to them, were confusedly mingled in his brain

During the interval between her divorce and her remarriage she had learned what things cost, but not how to do without them; and money still seemed to her like some mysterious and uncertain stream which occasionally vanished underground but was sure to bubble up again at one's feet.

el matrimonio no era un anclaje en puerto seguro, como le habían enseñado, sino un viaje por mares que no figuran en los mapas.

marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

Through the stillness they heard the church clock striking five. Oh, Ethan, it's time! she cried. He drew her back to him. Time for what? You don't suppose I'm going to leave you now? If I missed my train where'd I go? Where are you going if you catch it? She stood silent, her hands lying cold and relaxed in his. What's the good of either of us going anywheres without the other one now? he said.

She stared, perhaps suspecting irony, as she always did beneath the unintelligible.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

îÈ™i d?duse seama c? fusese obiÈ™nuit s? vad? în c?s?torie un liman sigur, când de fapt era mai degrab? o peregrinare pe m?ri necunoscute.

He had to the full the courage of his lack of convictions.

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to govern us; nor can we know distinctly to what port we steer.

O why doe wretched men so much desire, To draw their dayes vnto the vtmost date, And doe not rather wish them soone expire, Knowing the miserie of their estate, And thousand perills which them still awate, Tossing them like a boate amid the mayne, That euery houre they knocke at deathes gate? And he that happie seemes and least in payne, Yet is as nigh his end, as he that most doth playne.

I'm not sure what readers want.

You say that you don't care about age and that you're ready to push the wheelchair and hose down my bum, but how can you be sure?

Their eyes meet and part, each staring into the forlorn space, a shaft of disappointment, he because he is unable to help her and she because she is thrown back into her own quagmire of uncertainty.

suddenly the window flew open, swung back and forth on its hinges, as if something was about to come in, and she waited in dread for what that something might be.

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.