Quotes About Uncertainty

The fear of the drugs running out is manageable-the fear of time running down isn't.

The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't.

She had no history and nothing to plan for. It was all over for the time being. She just was.

Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?" —PEMA CHÖDRÖN

Hope may have a positive reputation, but it has a vicious downside. If you have hope, you can be crushed.

Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?" Pema Chodron

Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

I'm a writer," Jane says. "I have a habit, I guess, where I see all the possibilities in a situation. No matter what, there's always at least one that's terrifying.

The dream was now in the air at risk of the elements beyond her grasp.

It is well-known, that a weak mind, rather than have such a suffering, will turn aside, and take shelter in willing credulity to its first opinion; a strong one, meeting the worst at once, will proceed straight forward, and, freeing itself from an uncertainty, will do both that, which is just towards others, and, in the end, best for its own ease.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

I do not know what will be the end of it.

There's a story unfolding with a definite beginning and an eventual end, and even though we can't begin to imagine what the whole plot is, and we can hardly even see beyond the present moment, someday we're going to see and understand all of it. For now, we trust. Later, we'll know.

Never having been dead, it was merely speculation.

All that I am hangs by a thread tonight

Tomorrow the mirrors will mock me

I cannot tell if the day; is ending, or the world, or if; the secret of secrets is inside me again.

I didn't officially live with him and wasn't officially committed to him. If we were in a proper relationship and I did live with him and was officially committed to him, the first thing I would have to do would be to leave.

She had a glass of Bushmills in one hand and a glass of Bacardi in the other because she was still at that stage of working out what to have for her first drink.

If we were in a proper relationship and I did live with him and was officially committed to him, first thing I would have to do would be to leave.

Okay,' I said. 'So if I were to stop walking-while-reading, and hands in pockets, and little night torches, and instead looked right and left and right again for dangerous, unscrupulous forces, does that mean I'll end up happy?' 'It's not about being happy,' he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I've ever heard.

You'd better be careful then,' said friend, which was what everybody said. People always said you'd better be careful. Though how, when things are out of your hands, when things were never really in your hands, when things are stacked against you, does a person – the little person down here on the earth – be that?

Bilmemkim McBilmemkim'in gö?süme silah dayay?p bana kedi dedi?i ve beni ölümle tehdit etti?i gün, sütçü'nün de öldü?ü gündü.