Quotes About Uncertainty

First, all that taming and mastering has made such a mess that it is unclear whether life on earth can continue.

And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

For the first time back then, I thought about everything seriously. The past and the future, both equally unknowable, and also this ongoing situation that the consulates call "transitory" but that we know in everyday language as "the present.

Es ist mir ohnehin zutiefst unverständlich, was verheiratete oder glücklich liebende Leute auf einem Tanzfest oder in einer Diskothek suchen, wo der ganze Reiz solcher Veranstaltungen doch ausschließlich darin besteht, daß man nicht weiß, in wessen Gesellschaft man sie verlassen wird oder ob die Jagd ergebnislos bleibt.

Of course, it was possible that Fiedler might die more quickly and more terribly than they had feared in the struggles he'd gotten involved in. Only in times when nothing at all is possible anymore does life pass by like a shadow. But those times when everything becomes possible again contain all of life as well as death and destruction.

She just didn't know who else to be other than the person she was right now,

I have no idea what the future looks like but I can still dive in and I intend to keep doing it.

There was no giant sign proclaiming the end of life as they'd known it; instead, there was a mounting pile of annoyances and disappointments.

supported him. Now suddenly, he felt his position had

He had a feeling this was one of those times when a male should express positive enthusiasm regardless of what he really thought—especially when he didn't really know what was going on.

I'm confused." "Where Meg is concerned, you've been confused since you met her.

If we don't find what we seek what happen then? Nothing? Everything? Are we set free by our failure, or are we doomed because we failed to find the answer that would have saved us? And how are we supposed to know the difference?

They'll come back or they won't, Simon thought as he read the back copy on a couple of books and set them aside for himself.

Most of the truly remarkable experiences I've had in theatre have filled me with uncertainty and disorientation

Every creative act involves a leap into the void. The leap has to occur at the right moment and yet the time for the leap is never prescribed. In the midst of a leap, there are no guarantees. To leap can often cause acute embarrassment. Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act—a key collaborator.

How oft with disappointment have I met, When I on fading things my hopes have set?

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

Who knows what will happen if I'm alone with my grief.

Where does unbelief begin? / When I was young // there were degrees of certainty. / I could say, Yes I know that I have two hands. / Then one day I awakened on a planet of people whose hands / occasionally disappear–

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

But of course if we knew what awaited—the losses and disappointments and grief that are inevitable, the unthinkable things we will prove capable of—the knowledge would paralyze us. The

It is not that the Hegartys don't know what they want, it is that they don't know HOW to want. Something about their wanting went catastrophically astray.

They sat in the upstairs living room, a place furnished, one way or another, from the stages of Dublin, so you were always sitting in character, you were just not sure which one.