Quotes About Uncertainty

The Vajrayana is the path of the rug being pulled out from under your feet, so you need someone who knows how to do that.

Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

Does she stay because she loves him as meat loves salt? Or does she stay because he has now promised her the kingdom? It is hard for her to tell the difference.

Things are messed up in the world, that's all.

I'd a million times rather live and risk and have it all end badly than stay in the box I've been in for the past two years.

I know they're not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it's tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like the world isn't a safe place. And of course, that's true, isn't it? The world is not a safe place.

I just-I don't want to get involved with you Jackson," I said, the words tumbling out. "You're a nice guy, but then, when it comes down to it-you're not, really.

Three flowers for you. You should have three." He looks pitiful. He looks powerful. I love him, but I am not sure I like him. I take his hand and lead him inside.

The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to.

Some boyfriends?" "Three boyfriends." "Three boyfriends is a lot." Jule shrugged. "I couldn't decide.

You better live this life of yours while you can—real living, the kind where you get a little dirt on your halo—'cause, babe, not one of us knows how long we got.

as if this tragedy marked the end of the family. And perhaps it did. And perhaps it did not.

The universe is seeming really huge right nw. I need something to hold on to.

I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die.

Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar. We have been here before. Also we have never been here before. For a moment, or for minutes, for hours, possibly.

I am not sure I'm a good person" he said after a while. "I'm not sure I am, either" I said.

O não-saber é o fundamento de tudo, ele cria o todo através de um acto que repete a cada instante, produz este mundo e qualquer outro, uma vez que está sempre a tomar como real aquilo que o não é. O não-saber é o gigantesco equívoco que serve de base a todas as nossas verdades, o não-saber é mais antigo e mais poderoso do que todos os deuses juntos.

This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.

Who could help anything? Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.

We are not quite sure that the Sermon on the Mount is the Sermon for the mart. We are not sure, and an unsure place is an unsafe place* We must go on or go back. We must be more Christian or less.

For above all the dread and uncertainty in which ignorant people lived like children in the dark – frightened of witches and wizards, of the Devil and evil spirits – above it all was the bright starlit sky of the new faith, showing them the way.

Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.