Quotes About Uncertainty

I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Think of Area X as a murderer we're trying to catch." "Oh great, that's just great, now we've got a detective on staff, too.

I'd wake in the morning, my head fuzzy, sometimes with someone I knew but who was a stranger just leaving, and realize I was one day closer to the end of it all.

May 6. No prott. But I have been having very odd thoughts.

Una piscina. Una bahía rocosa. Una parcela vacía. Un faro. Una torre. Estas cosas son reales y no lo son. Existen y no existen.

He sat up abruptly in bed, stifled another cough. Someone was in his lighthouse. More than one person. Whispering. Or maybe even shouting, the sound by the time it infiltrated the brick and stone, the wood and steel, brought to him through a distance, a time, that he couldn't know. The irrational thought that he was hearing the ghosts of dozens of lighthouse keepers all at once, in a kind of threnody, the condensed chorus of a century. Another phantom sound?

Per il momento voglio crederti. Voglio crederti perché in realtà non ho scelta. Non ho una teoria migliore.

very least, we had become a failed state. Was the world a failed state, too?

Progress':a word to choke on, a word to discard and then pick up again, hurl it in the oven like coal, watch it spurl out its own name in black smoke from the chimney of the hunting lodge. I embrace it, and I repeat it, and yet I know no word I or any other human could use will ever be the right word.

surely by now you realize that you can't trust anyone. But why not take a chance?' *

In some unquantifiable way, too, you believe Lowry's approach is pushing the Southern Reach farther away from the answers. Like an astronaut headed into the oblivion of vast and empty space who, in flailing about, only speeds up the moment when he is beyond rescue.

De haber habido algo a lo que disparar se habría sentido más tranquila; pero solo teníamos lo que acechara en nuestra imaginación.

Are you laughing at me?" "No," he said. "No, I'm not. You're a curious person. You ask questions. That's why they don't like you. That's all." People who asked questions didn't necessarily like being asked questions. "What's wrong with asking questions?" "Nothing." Everything. Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt.

Be', dipende dai soffitti alti, no? Vedi cose che non esistono. E le cose che vedi sembrano altre cose. Un uccello può essere un pipistrello. Un pipistrello può essere una busta di plastica che vola. Così va il mondo. Vedi una cosa per un'altra. Uccelli-foglie. Pipistrelli-uccelli. Ombre fatte di luci. Rumori accidentali che sembrano più significativi. È sempre così, dovunque vai.

Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt.

There will never be a grand unified theory, Gloria. We will never find it. Not in our lifetimes, and it'll be too late.

Area X was all around them. Area X was contained in no one place or figure.

You couldn't martyr yourself to Area X, you could only disappear trying, and not even be sure of that.