Quotes About Uncertainty

Sei que morrerei um dia e não quero morrer, nem quero que tu morras. Se algum de nós partir, não resta nada para ambos. Não sei se chamas a isso puro e imaculado. - Sim, chamo. - Nesse caso, prefiro ser sujo - disse Maurice, após uma pausa.

This solitude oppressed 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.

Come this way immediately," commanded Cecil, who always felt that he must lead women, though knew not whither, and protect them, though he knew not against what.

There's never any knowing—(how am I to put it?)—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.

Not even that. It may be halfway in the wrong direction. I can't explain. I don't believe in all these fads, and yet I don't like saying that I don't believe in them.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

One person's Utopia usually means another person's hell. We live in a state of uncertainty, not just in Northern Ireland, but by virtue of being human.

I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally.

Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain

Everybody, he mused had everything worked out. Except me

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.

Oysa ben hikayesini ilk kez anlat?rken dikkate al?nmayan insanlar?n aniden ölebilece?inden korkar?m.

And before it was over, Tracy did get the answers he wanted, and a few he didn't. But it seemed to him that was just the nature of answers.

Mountaineering will never be a safe activity and would not be worth doing if it were.

Life turns on a dime. have no idea what tomorrow will bring... sure life would be a lot easier if we knew what was going to happen. You've got to live by faith one day at a time.

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

Would it make you feel better if I pretended not to be making it up as I go along? [...] In that case, I know exactly what I'm doing, but please don't ask me about it in any great detail.

On one level, it is the interregnum surrounded by the ghosts of the dying moment, and on another, the moment that is desperately trying to be born with a lie wrapped around its neck.

Are you sure? You have to be sure. I'm not saying that to cover myself, or to put the responsibility on your shoulders. It's my responsibility as much as yours. And I know that in a way no one can be sure about anything like this. I just don't know if this is the right thing, and you have to help me.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.