Quotes About Uncertainty

Y pensó en sí misma y halló solamente confusión.

Alguien me está gestando indefiniblemente. Sé que naceré muerta.

qué esperar?, ¿cuándo?, ¿hasta dónde?, ¿por qué?, ¿para qué? Su interior se deshacía paulatinamente como un grifo mal construido. Algo goteaba horrorosas partículas de dolor. Algo, algo.

Elevo los brazos y caigo en el vacío. ¿Qué hacer? ¿Qué vivir? ¿Cuánto? ¿Cómo? ¿Dónde? Y… ¿por qué?

Mientras me río, no sé por qué, me siento impura. Cuando lloro, no sé por qué, me siento yo y me purifico.

PEREGRINA.—No os entiendo. Si os oigo quejaros siempre de la vida, ¿por qué os da tanto miedo dejarla? ABUELO.— No es por lo que dejamos aquí. Es porque no sabemos lo que hay al otro lado. PEREGRINA.—Lo mismo ocurre cuando el viaje es al revés. Por eso lloran los niños al nacer.

Manuel Mandeb entró en la niebla y se sintió más tranquilo. Prefería caminar en la cerrazón porque el rumbo era incierto, las ubicaciones discutibles y las apariencias confusas. Mandeb sentía terror ante lo irrefutable, ante las decisiones del amor tomadas, ante lo que ya nunca podría ser de otro modo.

I thought I was what I am, but in reality I'm still what I was. And that which I was, well, I don't know what it is. Perhaps some day I will know. Then I'll be what I shall be, but I'll stop being what I am now. And ceasing to be what I am now horrifies and terrifies me. Help me, please, you two!

Sí, vam decidir esperar i de tant fer-ho el temps se'ns en va anar de les mans.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

The end of the world might be near, Isador said to her once, but we don't have to rush to reach it.

I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

He acquired the unknowable, variable depths; he could be anyone he wanted to be, and if he didn't like who he became, he could switch again, going in, going out. And who the fuck are you?

What would love be without mutually assured oblivion?

Accadono cose che sono come domande. Passa un minuto, oppure anni, e poi la vita risponde.

Il cuor mi dice che ci rivedremo presto. - Certo, il cuore, chi gli dà retta, ha sempre qualche cosa da dire su quello che sarà. Ma che sà il cuore? Appena un poco di quello che è già accaduto.

Anyone who spotted a weed in a neglected field—a nice wild sorrel, say—and wanted to know whether it had come from a seed that had sprouted in the field, was blown in by the wind, or had been dropped there by a bird, would never, no matter how long they pondered it, reach a conclusion

Ora sapete come è l'aspettativa: immaginosa, credula, sicura; alla prova poi, difficile, schizzinosa: non trova mai tanto che le basti, perché, in sostanza, non sapeva quello che si volesse; e fa scontare senza pietà il dolce che aveva dato senza ragione.

Her heart was an invalid convinced that it would not survive many more sunsets.

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

People were supposed to cry at weddings; they just weren't supposed to cry because they suspected that the bride was going to die.

no one is ever ready for anything

No idea about weather these days.

Yeah," said Jack. "No idea about weather these days.