Quotes About Uncertainty

There is a terrible mystery around us...a mystery much more to be feared than any number of ghosts or genii!

Alas, madame, Raoul humbly replied, unable to restrain his tears, alas, I believe that Christine really does love him!...But it is not only that which drives me to despair; for what I am not certain of, madame, is that the man whom Christine loves is worthy of her love! It is for me to be the judge of that, monsieur! said Christine, looking Raoul angrily in the face.

Are people so unhappy when they love?' 'Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

Se es desgraciado cuando se ama? - Sí, Christine. Cuando se ama y no se sabe si se es correspondido.

Christine: 'Are people unhappy when they're in love?' Raoul: 'Yes, when they're in love and aren't sure of being loved.' Christine: 'Are you saying that for Erik?' Raoul: 'For Erik and for myself.

Are people so unhappy when they love? Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings -- let literature teach us that there are no certainties, that the process is open, and that it may be altogether salutary that it is so.

Loading new software into new computers and using it for the first time was like playing Russian roulette. It demanded and got a lot of respect.

We are all serving time on death row; only the length of our stay is indeterminate. Dead people, walking. If our lives are to be fulfilling, we must be grateful for the experience alone.

Life is essentially a fatal disease of indeterminate duration.

Still no word from Mel.

Until we reach the end of time, we don't know whether something's been good or bad; we can only judge the intentions of those who acted.

We are as solid as most truly false things are--a dance of particles in space. Only the things no one can touch are true...

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a vague sense of what was happening in the world, a vague sense of having meant someone before. It was like being vaguely drunk all the time.

although I was as zealous in my anti-faith as Paul was in his belief I would be lying if I did not confess to a slight chink in my armour of nonbelief.

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a vague sense of what was happening in the world, a vague sense of having met someone before. It was like being vaguely drunk all the time.

The ICU's life cycle for humans is as follows: a spurt of intense activity at birth; timeless adulthood, when one is afflicted with a range of woes that carry their own temporalities; and an inglorious, ill-defined end. The effect of this is, paradoxically, to make the individual an tin-defined, tabula rasa onto which various diseases are inscribed.

we know little of the things for which we pray

The time always flees; it will wait for no man. And through you are still in the flower of your young manhood, age creeps on steadily, as quiet as a stone, and death meanaces every age and strikes in every rank, for no one escapes. As surely as we know that we will die, so we are uncertain of the day when death shall fall on us.

His spirit changed house, and vanished there, Where I have not been, so cannot say where.

In almost all mammals and all primates, females do almost all of the child care, with very little help from males. Males could never be sure which offspring really carried their genes, whereas females could be certain. This uncertainty about paternity leads most male mammals to invest much more in pursuing new sexual opportunities than in taking care of their putative offspring.

Ich wage kaum die Hände auszustrecken, wie in einem engen Spiegelzimmer, aus Furcht überall anzustoßen, daß die schönen Figuren in Scherben auf dem Boden lägen und ich vor der kahlen, nackten Wand stünde.

Look around! Everything's rigid, hard, dark, what lies beneath it all? Something we don't understand. God's gone. Everything's gone.

It is hard to see why we should not turn round and mistrust this very mistrust. Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?