Quotes About Uncertainty

Nunca verás los momentos por venir, que mutilarán para siempre tu vida al menos no hasta después que te hayan rasgado.

Follow me down before anyone else gets show. Especially before I get shot, 'cause that would just ruin an otherwise nice day. (Jack)

In one instant, everything can change. It was the mantra she lived her life by and a lesson she'd learned all too well when she was only ten years old. Never take anyone or anything for granted. In one blink, life altered and sometimes all you could do was hang on as tightly as possible while it did its best to sling you off.

Eh, ca c'est bon. That was life. Some days you ate the rougarou. Some days the rougarou devoured you.

What makes you think anyone has a roadmap? You think I know where I'm going? That I ever have? We're all mice stumbling in our mazes, trying to find our cheese. Hoping the levers we're pulling are the right ones and not the ones designed to shock us.

There's no use in talking about the plan, because of course nothing went the way it was supposed to.

I'm not certain what you mean by that last bit," I said at last. "As for the first, you said 'until last year.' Does that mean that Lady Tamara has someone else in view?" "But of course," Nee said blandly. "The Marquis of Shevraeth." I laughed all the way up the steps into the Residence.

I am like a lifeguard with the terrible, secret knowledge that he does not himself know how to swim.

God! Whose hand was I holding?

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

Nothing irrevocable had yet been spoken, but there was only the barest margin of safety left them; each of them moving delicately along the outskirts of an open question, and, once spoken, such a question - as Do you love me? - could never be answered or forgotten.

In my own experience, contacts with the big world outside the typewriter are puzzling and terrifying; I don't think I like reality very much. Principally, I don't understand people outside; people in books are sensible and reasonable, but outside there is no predicting what they will do.

In the night, in the dark.

The journey itself was her positive action, her destination vague, unimagined, perhaps nonexistent.

I personally preferred to chance the arsenic," Uncle Julian said.

We never know where our courage is coming from.

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

The most important thing she had learned so far - and it was something to know, after only twelve hours - was that she need not pretend, always, to be competent or at home in a strange atmosphere. Other people, she had learned, were frequently uneasy and uncertain, lost their way or their money, were nervous at being approached by strangers or wary of officials.

Don't be so afraid all the time. We never know where our courage is coming from.

Qué frío hace, pensó Eleanor infantilmente; nunca seré capaz de volver a dormir con todo este ruido surgiendo de mi cabeza; ¿cómo pueden los demás oír el ruido, si está saliendo de mi cabeza? Estoy desapareciendo centímetro a centímetro en esta casa, me estoy desmoronando cada vez un poco más porque todo este ruido me está desgajando; ¿por qué están asustados los demás?

Tod Donald rarely did anything voluntarily, or with planning, or even with intent acknowledged to himself; he found himself doing one thing, and then he found himself doing another, and that, as he saw it, was the way one lived along, never deciding, never helping.

and whatever walked there, walked alone.

I thought we had somehow not found our way back correctly through the night, that we had somehow lost ourselves and come back through the wrong gap in time, or the wrong door, or the wrong fairy tale.

Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone