Quotes About Uncertainty

Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

Happiness like this is frightening....they only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something away from you

It wasn't meant to be, Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.

I think I have grown accustomed to the glass and I am terrified that when it breaks, when I am alone, I will spill out into the wide open unknown and flop around, helpless, lost,grasping for breath.

Her ÅŸeye, devasa olas?l?k oranlar?na raÄŸmen, kontrol edemediÄŸin bir dünyan?n, kaybetmeyi kald?ramayaca??n tek ÅŸeyi elinden almayaca??na dair, son derece tekinsiz ve ak?l almaz aptall?kta bir inanç duymak.

Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any notion that a way of life had ended. Our way of life.

I rescued him from the certainty of a turmoil and put him in a turmoil of uncertainty.

And so it was that, about a week later, we crossed a strip of warm, black tarmac and I brought Hassan's son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty.

The truth was no. The lie was yes. I settled for something in between. I don't know.

if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.

A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose.

Ä°zin veriyorum, çünkü belki yard?mlar? dokunur, diyorum. Ama unutup gidiyorlar. Bir daha onlardan haber alm?yorum. Onun için de sana soruyorum: Åžimdi ne olacak?

It was like waking up one morning and finding that a wild animal has wandered into your house. No place felt safe to me.

She shook the dice in her hands, seemed to reconsider.

It's a funny thing Markos, but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

You know nothing of courage," said Baba Ayub. "For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

It was a spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to loose. Faith that the world will not destroy you...

lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty

It's a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty.

It's a funny thing, Markos, but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.