Quotes About Uncertainty

Si hubiera sospechado lo que se oye después de muerto, no me suicido.

They have,' she said, 'the uniformity of their insecurity.

The Pringles had been married less than a week. Though she would have claimed to know about him everything there was to be known, she was now beginning to wonder if she really knew anything.

Out in the street again, Harriet attempted philosophy: 'Wherever one is,' she said, 'the only thing certain is that nothing is certain.

La vita del fotografo viaggiatore è una vita da solitario radicato nell'incertezza che esige una totale dedizione.

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

The word "doubt" may be interpreted as "becoming the object of doubt itself.

Is this love reality Or a dream? I cannot know, When both reality and dreams Exist without truly existing.

To an outsider, the chaos might appear overwhelming.

Ho guadagnato una vita, un biglietto per la morte, e viaggio ancora. In certi momenti ho creduto d'essere giunto, alla fine del viaggio mi sbagliavo. Erano solo imprevisti del cammino.

Jamás debes evitar el riesgo, aunque el miedo te frene.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up

For at this juncture, the West has cut itself off from its own Jewish and Christian roots—the faith, the ideas, the ethics and the way of life that made it the West. It now stands deeply divided, uncertain of its post-Christian identity, and with its dominance waning in the global era.

they have become notable features of the heart of modern darkness: no givens, no rules and no limits.

the truth is this: We always have sure and sufficient reasons for knowing why we can trust God, but do not always know what God is doing and why.

All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know.

The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.

The more I think of it, the less I understand. All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it?— I don't know.

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.

I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.

Nevertheless, I still wait for someone. Who on earth am I waiting for, sitting here everyday? For what sort of person? Maybe what I'm waiting for isn't even a human. I dislike humans. No, I fear them. When I meet someone and indifferently exchange such greetings as 'How are you?' or 'It's become cold', greetings I don't want to make, I somehow get the unpleasant feeling that there is no such horrible liar in the whole world as I, and I wish I were dead.

In terms of sealing your fate, there's no difference between turning right on a whim and turning right because you've come to some momentous resolve. Either way, it can't be undone.

Once you've given in to that whim, your destiny is decided. There's no such thing as 'seeing what happens' in this life. To do something just to see what happens is exactly the same as just plain doing it.

It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it?—I don't know.