Quotes About Uncertainty

I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.

I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

antes de entrar en batalla, nadie sabía quién es. Alguien podía pensarse cobarde y ser un valiente, y asimismo al revés (...)

I offer you explanations of yourself, theories about yourself, authentic and surprising news of yourself. I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

I do not know which of us has written this page.

It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

I had no wish to take any determined route on that stroll; I attempted, rather, a maximum latitude of probabilities in order not to wear out expectation with an obligatory anticipation of a single one of them. I was able, within the imperfect limits of possibility, to walk, as they say, at random. I accepted, without any conscious prejudice but that of avoiding the wider avenues and streets, the most obscure invitations of chance.

Con otra voz dijo que la guerra servía,como la mujer,para q se probaran los hombres,y que,antes de entrar en batalla,nadie sabía quién es.

Babilonia no es otra cosa que un infinito juego de azares.

It's enough that if I am rich in anything, it is in perplexities rather then in certaintes.

Aquí también esa desconocida Y ansiosa y breve cosa que es la vida. (Here too the never understood, Anxious, and brief affair that is life.)

La muerte (o su alusión) hace preciosos y patéticos a los hombres. Estos conmueven por su condición de fantasmas; cada acto que ejecutan puede ser último; no hay rostro que no esté por desdibujarse como el rostro de un sueño. Todo entre los mortales tiene el valor de lo irrecuperable y de lo azaroso.

Tudo está dito: falta aposta.

the present is indefinite...the future has no reality other than as a present memory.

Fecho os olhos e vejo um bando de pássaros. A visão dura um segundo ou talvez menos; não sei quantos pássaros vi. Era definido ou indefinido o seu número? [...] Se Deus existe, o número é definido, porque Deus sabe quantos pássaros vi. Se Deus não existe, o número é indefinido, pois ninguém conhecerá ao certo a sua conta.

No less vain to my mind are hope and fear, for they always refer to future events, that is, to events which will not happen to us, who are the minute present.

It was also possible that Villari was already dead, and then his life was a dream. That possibility disturbed him, because he couldn't quite figure out whether it felt like a relief or a misfortune; he told himself it was absurd, and he discarded it.

Me creo indigno del Infierno o de la Gloria, pero nada predigo.

There is no human being on earth capable of declaring with certitude who he is.

Cu un glas schimbat, mi-a spus c? r?zboiul, ca È™i femeia, au fost f?cute ca s?-i pun? pe b?rbaÈ›i la încercare È™i c?, înainte de a intra în lupt?, nimeni nu È™tie cine este.

We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.

Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.

The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?