Quotes About Uncertainty

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.

When we are uncertain, undecided, embarrassed, or have stage fright, we lose the sensation of self. We sometimes say after an embarrassing moment, "I was completely at sea, I was lost, I was out of my mind." and so on. If the uncertainty is great then feelings of anxiety, fear, or panic can flood in. So we develop strategies to cope with the anxiety by restoring the sensation of self. Men stroke their chins using the stubble as a kind of sandpaper. Women touch their hair.

The only nugget of unimpeachable wisdom I have been able to glean from my lifetime of intensive dog study can be summed up on this one grim axiom: "Anything can happen!

Lightly, lightly, very lightly, A wind passes very lightly And goes away, always very lightly. And I don't know what I think And I don't want to know.

Nuestros saludos son despedidas: de muchas formas vivimos en el abandono -en a búsqueda de la inconsciencia- pero tal vez lo hacemos porque tenemos tan claro y tan presente que todo va a terminar. Si cada muerte es un apocalipsis en miniatura, porque el mundo termina para quien deja de existir y todo el tiempo hay alguien que muere... Alberto Chimal, del libro "Diarios del Fin del Mundo

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

Things that are understood are not scandalized. Shock - scandal is basically fear. The scandal is, after all, the fear of losing one's personality. In short, the shocked person is uncertain, hence a conformist.

simÈ›ea de fapt c?, deÈ™i gândea ca ei, îi lipsea înc? acea înfl?c?rare a inimii care topeÈ™te raÈ›iunile multiple ale minÈ›ii în metalul unei convingeri unice. [...] Inima îi era îngheÈ›at? È™i mintea sa nu È™tia s? exprime decât îndoieli.

E ora cosa farò?" si domandava il ragazzo; ogni volta che osservava la mobilità e la continua agitazione della vita, la propria inerzia gli incuteva spavento.

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

As your brain is upgraded, you will discover that you can let go of your fixation on what you think is absolutely vital to your safety and happiness and essential for your survival. As you release your old, fear-based approach to life, you will find you have more faith in your ability to handle uncertainty. You will gain a sense of living in a world that is safe and welcoming, and a universe that supports your intentions and what you value as truly important.

A cardinal, whistling spring to a thaw but later finding himself mistaken, can retrieve his error by resuming his winter silence. A chipmunk, emerging for a sunbath but finding a blizzard, has only to go back to bed. But a migrating goose, staking two hundred miles of black night on the chance of finding a hole in the lake, has no easy chance for retreat. His arrival carries the conviction of a prophet who has burned his bridges.

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

porque yo no pedí nacer en forma de signo de interrogación

Tengo miedo y no puedo vivir en este mundo y lo quiero, claro que lo quiero, pero no sé cómo se hace.

dice que no sabe del miedo de la muerte del amor dice que tiene miedo de la muerte del amor dice que el amor es muerte es miedo dice que la muerte es miedo es amor dice que no sabe