Quotes About Uncertainty

We'd better get there soon, said Corwin. They're probably building new streets in Paris right this minute. What if I don't want to, being a lesbian? Corwin fell silent; after a while he spoke. So you think it might be permanent?

Human affairs are always checkered and vicissitudes in this life are rather to be expected than wondered at." 18

Is it possible that is not known?

Yet again he contemplated giving up business. An

Though he considered establishing a weekend house or summer hideaway, he had no exact plan.

Never sure of himself, Junior plodded ahead, always wondering where he was heading.

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

he was betting the future of his firm on one roll of the dice.

Since I don't know where I'm going, I guess I'm in no real hurry to get there.

All over town kids lay awake & wondered: Am I smart enough, pretty enough, strong enough, tall enough? If our fears were smoke, the town would be covered night & day by an inky pall.

She knows her life is on the line but, believe it or not, she's never been so excited! Her husband's a serial killer, and her bodice is wet with tears, but there's a chance her brothers will show up like winning lottery numbers. Which does she want more - her hair wound in the maniac's hands and her white white throat bared, or the sound of boots on marble stairs?

I don't know where I am.

all the while remembering what it had felt like when the world you knew had up and vanished, and you needed to find something to bring that world back, and you weren't sure that you could.

Something would happen or it wouldn't happen, and that was the way of it.

Hay un momento en que todo viaje se convierte en una pesadilla»;

Tudo o que aprendemos nas nossas vidas breves não é mais do que uma ninharia insubstancial arrancada à enormidade do que nunca saberemos.

Nadie puede decir si habríamos insistido, dada la pobreza de nuestros medios de investigación, si hubiésemos conocido la verdadera proporción de lo que estábamos buscando»

ese maldito cuerpo traidor que de repente se queda cojo, y se terminaron para siempre las montañas; o que hace crecer insidiosamente, en el laborioso silencio de las células, un tumor maligno que te va a torturar antes de asesinarte;

Y también que sigo viviendo sin consuelo y que no sé en qué me convertiré ni cómo soportaré la tarea que me queda.

mundo cambia constantemente y no está regido por la necesidad, sino por el azar. Por el más insufrible, estúpido e inadmisible azar.

Por azar. Por puro y ciego azar, como sucede todo en este mundo.

el mundo no se rige por la necesidad, sino por el azar.

Que el mundo no se rige por la necesidad, sino por el azar. Es ésta una sabiduría muy dolorosa, desde luego, porque supone admitir el sinsentido de la existencia. Bajo este punto de vista, todo, desde el sufrimiento hasta la heroicidad, no es más que un ciego capricho del universo, una broma colosal de la materia.

Tengo miedo de una cosa que vive y que no se ve. Tengo miedo a la desgracia traidora que viene, y que nunca se sabe dónde viene. Adrianie, donde estas.