Quotes About Uncertainty

My husband's disappeared. He got in from work, propped his briefcase against the wall and asked me if I'd bought any bread. It must have been around half past seven.

The purpose of the Library is to preserve the integrity of civilization... Why we do things will not change, but how we will do them will... If the Library is to fulfill its purpose in the future, librarians must commit to a culture of continuous operational change, accept risk and uncertainty as key properties of the profession, and uphold service to the user as our most valuable directive.

Art is a big question mark.

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be.

The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.

you never do know the actual nature even of your own experience. Or perhaps it has no fixed and certain nature.

It seems as though the conclusions are never as interesting as the questions. I mean, they're not what you remember.

My mother was happy that day, we did not know why. And if she was sad the next, we did not know why. And if she was gone the next, we did not know why. It was as if she righted herself continually against some current that never ceased to pull. She swayed continuously, like a thing in water, and it was graceful, a slow dance, a sad and heady dance

I am in a state of categorical unbelief. I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean. (Jack Boughton)

You can say to yourself, I'm just a body that thinks and talks and seems to want its life, one more day of it. You don't have to know why. Well, nothing could ever change if your body didn't just keep you there not even knowing what it is you're waiting for. Not even knowing that you're waiting at all. Just there on the stoop in the moonlight licking up tears.

If you thought dead was just dead, then you wouldn't have to worry about any of this.

If the Lord is more gracious than any of us can begin to imagine, and I'm sure He is, then your Doll and a whole lot of people are safe, and warm, and very happy. And probably a little bit surprised. If there is no Lord, then things are just the way they look to us. Which is really much harder to accept. I mean, it doesn't feel right. There has to be more to it all, I believe.

Vous ne pouvez jamais savoir quand vous voyez quelqu'un pour la dernière fois.

qu'arriverait-il si l'homme qui prétendait être son mari se détournait de Lila? Rien. Et s'il n'y avait finalement pas d'enfant? Il y aurait un soir et un matin. Le silence du monde lui faisait aussi mal que s'il se moquait ouvertement d'elle.

My point here is that you never do know the actual nature even of your own experience.

To me, going to the unknown is absolutely rule number one.

Tolerance of ambiguity is a necessary condition for creativity.

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

Quería de veras un consejo, piensa, sabía que estabas enamorado de ella y quería saber si te atreverías a decírselo? Qué habría dicho si yo, piensa, qué habría yo si ella. Piensa: ay, Zavalita.

Por más que uno fuera precavido y planeara sus acciones con la mayor lucidez, la vida, más compleja que todos los cálculos, hacía estallar los esquemas y los reemplazaba por situaciones inciertas y contradictorias.

no estoy en policiales —dijo Santiago—.

Ser agnóstico facilita hacerse a la idea de morir: la perspectiva de la nada es grata, sobre todo en momentos de contrariedad o desánimo.