Quotes About Uncertainty

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.

Look here, old sport, he broke out surprisingly. What's your opinion of me, anyhow? A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasions which that question deserves.

What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

I think one thing today and another tomorrow. That is really all that's the matter with me, except a crazy defiance and a lack of proportion.

You're not in love with me. You never wanted to marry me, did you?' 'It was the twilight,' he said wonderingly.

Unlike lovers they possessed no past; unlike man and wife, they possessed no future; yet up to in this morning Nicole had liked Abe better than anyone except Dick--and he had been heavy, belly-frightened, with love for her for years.

He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.

The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn't know what she's doing.

Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge, anything at all...

Life was a damned muddle . . . a football game with every one off-side and the referee gotten rid of—every one claiming the referee would have been on his side. . .

Wilson shook his head. His eyes narrowed and his mouth widened slightly with the ghost of a superior 'Hm!'.

As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacing back and forth, its disastrous retreats!

After the sureties of youth there sets in a period of intense and intolerable complexity.

Oh God! One minute it's my world, and the next I'm the world's fool.

I don't understand yet how it all happened.' 'Neither do I.' He smiled grimly. 'I guess these baby parties are pretty rough affairs.

Hello—what hotel is this—?

What are you looking at? I was just thinking that you're going to be rather happy. Nicole was frightened: Am I? All right--things couldn't be worse than they have been.

He [suddenly]: I don't want to fall in love with you-- She [raising her eyebrows]: Nobody asked you to. He [continuing coldly]: But I probably will.

she felt that she had learned something, though exactly what it was she did not know.

Kuigi alus, millele inimese käitumine toetub, võib olla nii kalju kui mädasoo, kaotab aluspõhi pärast teatava punkti ületamist minu silmis tähenduse.

Es-tu amoureux de moi? me demanda-t-elle à voix basse. Sinon, pourquoi fallait-il que je vienne seule? — C'est tout le mystère du château des brouillards.