Quotes About Uncertainty

You never know when your number is called, just don't get caught holding a bag of regrets.

The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.

He doubted there was much of a future for him after this.

Life is like the weather,despite a sunny forecast you can get wet.

In America, with all its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we do not know yet whether the sun is rising or setting for our country.

He shook his head in disbelief that such a thing could have happened. "Shall we ever know the inside story?" he said. "Uncle Eric's inside the sea-monkeys," said Bertie. "That's the story.

I learned a valuable lesson that nothing is ever guaranteed. However, you adjust; you get used to the little things and hope for the best.

J'aimais mieux rester das le doute et garder le rêve.

Kernkraftwerke hinzustellen, ohne zu wissen, wo der Atommüll endlagert werden kann, ist wie das Abziehen einer Handgranate bevor man weiss, wo man sie hinwerfen wird.

Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them

Dès l'instant de la naissance, la vie se précipite vers la mort en ignorant tout à fait quand la rencontre aura lieu.

was beginning to wonder if he

It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.

It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

Reality had settled in, and they're both still waiting to recover.

Ma una decisione bisognava pur prenderla, e ciò gli dispiaceva. Egli avrebbe preferito continuare l'attesa, rimanere assolutamente immobile, quasi a provocare il destino affinché si scatenasse davvero.

?imdi kim bilir nas?l s?k?c? bir ya?am bekliyordu?

hem sevinç hem hüzün ifade eden belli belirsiz bir gülümseme yavaÅŸça yüzünü ayd?nlat?yordu.

Quella mattina si affacciò dirigendo gli sguardi al triangolo visibile di deserto e credette di essere morto. Non pensò che potesse essere un sogno. Nel sogno c'è sempre qualcosa di assurdo e confuso, non ci si libera mai dalla vaga sensazione ch'è tutto falso, che un bel momento ci si dovrà svegliare.

Da qualche tempo infatti un'ansia, che lui non sapeva capire, lo inseguiva senza riposo: l'impressione di non fare in tempo, che qualche cosa di importante sarebbe successo e l'avrebbe colto di sorpresa. [...] Di giorno in giorno Drogo rimandava la decisione, si sentiva del resto ancora giovane, appena venticinque anni. Quell'ansia sottile lo inseguiva tuttavia senza riposo, [...].

This life looked like being a wash-out, so I pinned my hopes to the next.

Destiny and history are untidy.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

If I should try to put it into words, I mean how I did see her, it would be incomprehensible, for the simple reason that I find that I never did have a really clear idea of her at any time. I had an image of her, but that is not the same thing. An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. I had gathered, of course, a good deal from you, and later, after she went away, from others, but this only strengthened my confusion. The more we learn of a person, the less we know.