Quotes About Uncertainty

Could I be having a midlife crisis? Ahead of schedule. God, I'd just turned thirty-four. How batty would I be by fourty?

I don't want to lose anyone else I care about... for reasons I don't understand! I swore to myself I would do whatever necessary to prevent that from ever happening again!

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." Gail Sheehy

He felt like a satrap amid all those acres of sheets. But this morning it was different. He was simply lying there and adding up the future like a sum; and whichever way he added it, it came out wrong.

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand,not the least thing,everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be forseen.

We totter now on a precipice, the ground shaking beneath us. Yet most of us still imagine that the future will resemble the past. That's a whopping mistake. New warning signs look clear and compelling.

Blaming crashes and recessions on random and unpredictable shocks beyond our control has led experts and policy makers to view subsequent crises through the wrong lens. There are random and unpredictable shocks in life, but that doesn't mean we can't face them honestly and prepare for a world in which we know they happen even if we don't know when.

What if the last seventy-five years has been the exception rather than the rule? What if the last three-quarters of a century has lulled us into believing that the next few decades will continue on the same path? What if we have forgotten the lessons of history from a century ago? In the first four decades of the twentieth century, we faced World War I, then the deadly Spanish flu of 1918–19, then deglobalization and bouts of hyperinflation, and then the Great Depression.

Most revolutionaries neither exactly know--nor knew--what they want: Form or Unform.

She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.

You are a question to yourself. You've become a question to all those who meet you, those who know you (...). You doubt, at times, if you exist outside your own thoughts, outside your own head.

?yi ?eyler birdenbire olur; bu kadar bekletmez insan?. Sürüncemede kalan heyecanlardan ancak kötü ?eyler ç?kar. Ya da hiçbir ?ey ç?kmaz.

?nanarak dinlememizi güçle?tiriyorlar. ?nsan her sözü ku?kuyla kar??l?yor art?k. Gerçekle dü? birbirine kar???yor; yalan?n nerede bitti?ini anlayam?yoruz. Tutunacak bir dal?m?z kalm?yor. Tutunam?yoruz.

Korktum. Çünkü 'demek ki' diyemiyece?im bir yerlere gelmi?tim.

Turgut, s?k?nt?l? oldu?u zamanlar sorulara cevap vermez, bu kartlardan birini uzat?rd?: Daha gelmedi Bir de kantine bak Bugün yeni f?kra yok Ben ne bileyim ulan (en çok kullan?lan kart)

Bana kal?rsa kimse, mesela matematikle neden u?ra?t?g?n? hiçbir zaman tam olarak bilemez. Önemli olan, geri dönmeyi göze alamayaca??m?z kadar yol gitmi? olmakt?r bu konuda.

Hiçbir zaman, olmamak ile olmak aras?ndaki kesin geçi?i görememi?imdir. (Güne?in tam do?du?u, yapra??n tam açt??? zaman;benim, bir ?eyi ilk dü?ündü?üm an.)

Ben de hepinizden farkl? bir solucand?m, kim bilir? ?imdi yar?s? ezilmi?, yerde yatt??? için belli olmuyor.

Benim durumum biraz kar???k burada. Yerim belli de?il; okuyucuyla yazar aras?nda bir noktada ç?rp?n?p duruyorum. Durumumun ayd?nlanmas? için Asliye Hukuk Mahkemesi'ne ba?vurmay? dü?ünüyorum. Bana tan?kl?k eder misiniz Esat A?abey?

Nereden ba?layaca??m? bilmiyorum: tereddüt-ler içindeyim. Kimse de yard?m etmiyor. Asistan ba??ma di-kildi. Benden iki sat?r fazla bilmenin gururu içinde. OysaGauss'un yan?nda benim gibi o da bir hiç. Fark?nda de?il.

Ben bir noktaysam... odan?n ortas?nda durdu. ?u anda odan?n kö?egenlerinin kesim noktas?nda bulunuyorum. Bütün kö?elere sesleniyorum: içinizden birinde kalm?? bir tutunamayan var m??