Quotes About Uncertainty

Por qué te ha gustado? —le preguntó Nino. —Todavía no sé si me ha gustado. —Pero te ha intrigado. —Me ha hecho pensar. [...]

Blijft het feit dat ik mijn hand opstak en zei dat het menselijke lot zo duidelijk aan de blinde razernij van het toeval was blootgesteld dat jezelf aan een God toevertrouwen hetzelfde was als plaatjes verzamelen terwijl de stad brandt in het hellevuur.

Ebbi l'impressione che si dibattesse per trovare, dall'interno della gabbia in cui si era chiusa, un modo d'essere tutto suo che però le restava oscuro.

Todas las cosas del mundo pendían de un hilo, eran puro riesgo, y quien no aceptaba arriesgarse acababa deteriorándose en un rincón, sin confianza en la vida.

You're not happy to be getting married?" I ventured. He looked out the window: there was lightning and thunder but still no rain. He said: "I was fine the way I was.

Il terremoto- il terremoto del 23 novembre del 1980 con quel suo frantumare infinito- ci entrò dentro le ossa. Cacciò via la consuetudine della stabilità e della solidità, la certezza che ogni attimo sarebbe stato identico a quello seguente, la familiarità dei suoni e dei gesti, la loro sicura riconoscibilità

No lo sé, es difícil dar una respuesta tajante que sea cierta

Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.

I would always be afraid: afraid of saying the wrong thing, of using an exaggerated tone, of dressing unsuitably, of revealing petty feelings, of not having interesting thoughts.

Se encontraban en uno de esos lugares, especie de última estación, en donde los viejos solitarios esperan un tren desconocido con destino igualmente desconocido, y todo lo que los rodea ha dejado de existir.

It torments you to know you were misunderstood, to not have risked yourself, and to wait.

Un joven es siempre una incógnita. Matarlo es matar la posibilidad del misterio, todo lo que hubiera podido ser, su extraordinaria riqueza, su complejidad. •José Soriano Muñoz, maestro de la Escuela Wilfrido Massieu

Sicherheit erzeugt Angst vor dem Unsicheren.

Jednak kiedy udaje si? w uczciw? podró? w g??b siebie, zmuszony jest stwierdzi?, ?e jest tam tak mroczno, i? nie bardzo wiadomo, gdzie cz?owiek trafi?... Mo?na tak dla zabicia czasu, ale ten ucieka na sam nasz widok.

Erica tem receio que tudo fique como está e tem receio que algo se possa vir a alterar. Luta violentamente para conseguir respirar, uma espécie de ataque de asma, e depois não sabe que fazer com tanto ar.

brigitte wants to have her future made. she cannot produce it herself.

A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

The prevalent fashion has been to proclaim the latest revolution as the herald of a new day, and the newest turbulence as the necessary and beneficent prelude to an epoch of orderliness and justice.

Such are the ills of our time, which flounders between apocalypse and normalcy. Are we in a crisis, or aren't we?

They didn't take anything I did seriously; it was all some trivial, mildly annoying side activity that I insisted on for some reason, having nothing to do with real life. I couldn't challenge or contradict this view, even to myself, because I really didn't know how to do anything real. I didn't know how to move to a new city, or have sex, or have a real job, or make someone fall in love with me, or do any kind of study that wasn't a self-improvement project.

For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you were supposed to do.

I felt a great need to tell him how I was surrounded, overwhelmed, by things of unknown or dubious meaning, things that weren't commensurate to me in any way.

There was another snowstorm, although immediately after, the sun came out and it was almost sixty degrees, so the snow melted. Nothing was real anymore; everything was over.