Quotes About Uncertainty

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

In this view, man is an energy-converting organism who must exert his manipulative powers, who must damage his world in some ways, who must make it uncomfortable for others, etc., by his own nature as an active being. He seeks self-expansion from a very uncertain power base. Even if man hurts others, it is because he is weak and afraid, not because he is confident and cruel. Rousseau summed up this point of view with the idea that only the strong person can be ethical, not the weak one.

He is a prodigy in limbo. In both halves

man can never securely know what absolute reality is.

one of the great dangers of life is too much possibility, and that the place where we find people who have succumbed to this danger is the madhouse

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

I don't know. There isn't always an explanation for everything.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

Remember, everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong." - "You think so?" - "I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then

I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am?

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

I don't know, I said. There isn't always an explanation for everything. Oh, isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. That's awfully nice.

I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into.

Do you suppose it will always go on? No. What's to stop it? It will crack somewhere.

The old man's head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. It was too good to last, he thought. He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in.

We have to get used to the idea that at the most important crossroads in our life there are no signs.

He can't have gone, he said Christ know he can't have gone. He's making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and her remembers something of it. The he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy.

He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes.

You could not go back. If you did not go forward what happened?

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Oh, darling," she said. "You will be good to me, won't you?" What the hell, I thought. I stroked her hair and patted her shoulder. She was crying. "You will, won't you?" She looked up at me. "Because we're going to have a strange life.