Quotes About Uncertainty

We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.

era tão diversa de si mesma, ora isto, ora aquilo, que os dias iam passando sem acordo fixo, nem desengano perpétuo.

Nem eu, nem tu, nem ela, nem qualquer outra pessoa desta história poderia responder mais, tão certo é que o destino, como todos os dramaturgos, não anuncia as peripécias nem o desfecho. Eles chegam a seu tempo, até que o pano cai, apagam-se as luzes, e os espectadores vão dormir. Nesse gênero há porventura alguma coisa que reformar, e eu proporia, como ensaio, que as peças começassem pelo fim. 

Nada há definitivo no mundo; nem o infortúnio nem a prosperidade. O que a tua imaginação supõe estar perdido, acha-se apenas transviado ou oculto...

Há muitos modos de afirmar; há só um de negar tudo.

I let myself go to the to and fro of events and days, sometimes bewildered, sometimes apathetic, between ambition and discouragement.

O anseio de escutar a verdade complicava-se em mim com o temor de a saber. Era a primeira vez que a morte me aparecia assim perto, me envolvia, me encarava com os olhos furados e escuros.

A leitora, que é minha amiga e abriu este livro com o fim de descansar da cavatina de ontem para a valsa de hoje, quer fechá-lo às pressas, ao ver que beiramos um abismo. Não faça isso, querida; eu mudo de rumo.

O coração humano é a região do inesperado, dizia consigo o cético subindo as escadas da repartição.

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

Wait until tomorrow to find what tomorrow holds.

We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

We have to make decisions, and we can't make them if they're based on fear.

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...

If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we'd be—we'd be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives of our own, with everything all planned and done for us.