Quotes About Uncertainty

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. —JEAN KERR

Reality is not static—its properties are in constant flux, so perhaps we are as much in the world as we can ever be, and that's the problem.

It's all gone and I don't know what to do.

I have undertaken to to find an explanation for something that can't possibly be explained-Nero Wolfe

They say it works sometimes, but even if it does, how could you depend on anything you got that way? Not to mention that after you did it a few times any decent garbage can would be ashamed to have you found in it.

hung up and went back out to the car and told Fred: "A new era has begun. The earth has turned around and started the other way. Mr. Wolfe has left home in a taxicab to work on a case." "Huh? Nuts." "Nope. As Fritz says, honest for God. He really has. So if you'll—" "But Jesus, Archie. He'll get killed or something.

The inquiring mind is rarely blessed with certainty; it must make shift with assumptions;

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

The way my life goes, I can't tell if there are pits in my cherries or cherries among my pits, philosophically speaking.

Without risk, being fearless is impossible

Echte zekerheid is weten dat je geen zekerheid hebt, want dan zorg je er wel voor dat je elke dag alles uit het leven haalt.

When I awoke the next morning I looked out at a landscape blotted out by mist and the first thought that came to me was, I wonder who is going to be killed today?

Golly," Phoebe said again. "Do you think that will happen this time? Do you think by the end of this war there will be no men left for me to marry?

Almost twenty, I thought. And here I am at twenty-five still thinking I am young and have plenty of time to decide what to do with my life.

How can you promise?" Emily found herself near to tears. "You can't stop a storm, and if it's going to . . ." Another huge clap of thunder exploded overhead.

And this was someone who only yesterday had proposed marriage to me. Like everything else at the moment, it didn't add up.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can." —Mark Twain

What's causin' all this?

La ambigüedad desempeña un papel central e imprescindible, y su carácter universal no refleja otra cosa que su inevitabilidad.

Narrar es jugar al póquer con un rival que puede mirarte las cartas.

He was playing a game he did not believe he could win, for stakes he could not bear to lose.

Vaya usted a saber quién soy yo.

Es la frase más triste de todas las lenguas: "todo va a estar bien". Describe la esperanza y el anhelo, claro que sí, pero al mismo tiempo reconoce la crisis, la tempestad, el mal momento: todo va a estar bien, señoras y señores, porque ahora mismo no lo está, porque esto que estamos viviendo es un terrible inconveniente, un triste aprieto.