Quotes About Uncertainty

A cambio de un futuro siempre incierto, no hacemos cola para recibir la ración mensual de arroz, mantequilla o vivienda establecida por algún autócrata, sino que cada uno se lanza a realizar personales aspiraciones, tejiendo una malla de servicios que eleva hasta extremos antes impensables el nivel y la expectativa de vida para individuos y grupos.

Al fin y al cabo, la Historia, como viene a decir el autor del manuscrito carmesí, no es más que una larga carrera de relevos: sabemos de dónde viene y por dónde transcurre, pero, en último término, no adónde se dirige, ni cuándo concluirá.

Aunque quizá, por otra parte, la vida sea precisamente andar a tientas. En la mía, las certidumbres –y no he tenido más que dos o tres– me han llevado en general a lo peor.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Il vecchio mondo sta morendo. Quello nuovo tarda a comparire. E in questo chiaroscuro nascono i mostri.

After so much time he was still searching as he had then, hoping for something he couldn't name but that corroded or undermined his stability of thought, not allowing him real rest, injecting doubt and suspicion into the evident satisfaction or everything he'd achieved

She looked around and wouldn't understand how she'd reached this point, by what sum of errors, as if after a long, difficult journey she found herself in the wrong station, her suitcases on the ground, the train she'd been on disappearing in the distance and no other in sight, and nobody in the station, not even an open clerk's window where she could consult timetables or buy another ticket.

He's always been about to leave. He doesn't know for how many years he's been a guest in his own life.

When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

He who does not know how to believe, should not know.

Es difícil tener convicciones precisas cuando se habla de las razones del corazón, sostiene Pereira.

No me deje en manos de personas llenas de certezas, son gente terrible

La vita è un appuntamento, lo so di dire una banalità Monsieur, solo che noi non sappiamo mai il quando, il chi, il come, il dove. E allora uno pensa: se avessi detto questo invece di quello, o quello invece di questo, se mi fossi alzato tardi invece che presto, o presto invece che tardi, oggi sarei impercettibilmente differente, e forse tutto il mondo sarebbe impercettibilmente differente. O sarebbe lo stesso e io non potrei saperlo.

La vita è un cerchio. C'è un giorno in cui il cerchio si chiude, e noi non sappiamo quale.

History is never tidy.

You only come to know these things in hindsight Ã¢â'¬â€œ when you look back and see the precarious chain of events, happenstance, and good fortune that led to wherever you are now. Before you reach that point, you have no way of predicting which idea will make a difference and which will die on the vine.

The doubt has the mysterious power to bring out the hidden reality of life.

The fifty years of a company's glorious growth story do not guarantee its equivalent business rise even for the next fifty days in a fast-changing, competitive world of an internet age.

Zindagi aur maut uparwale ke haath hai, jahanpanah. Hum sab toh rangmanch ki kathputliyan hain jinki dor uparwale ki ungliyon main bandhi hai. Kab kaun kaise uthega yeh koi nahin bata sakta.

Life is full of fickleness and we get scared at every moment. And there is no place where this element is absent. But its effect is different in every person. Fear won't knock with prior knowledge; its appearances are always full of surprising facts.

If I should never see him again—she thought, Blessed Mother, how could I live, and yet it was the fear of seeing him again which had driven her to this desperate haste. The fear that if he were there so near her she

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!

Truth is not always provable!