Quotes About Uncertainty

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

numai in indoiala sunt profetii si fanaticii cu adevarat umani.

In all the edifice of thought, I have not found a category upon which to rest my head.

I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.

A fi sau a nu fi? Nici una nici alta.

Cei s?n?toÅŸi nu sunt reali. Au totul, în afar? de fiin?? - pe care doar o s?n?tate îndoielnic? Å£i-o d?.

J'ai cherché dans le doute un remède contre l'anxiété. Le remède a fini par faire cause commune avec le mal.

Nu te temi de viitor decât atunci când nu eÅŸti sigur c? te poÅ£i omorî la momentul dorit.

Teama ce se naÅŸte "din senin"... Singura,de altfel,ÅŸi cea mai întunecat?.Ea este echivoc? asemenea unei înmuguriri sumbre- ÅŸi genereaz? o muzic? de flaut trist ÅŸi aiurit.În camere t?cute de hotel sau pe str?zi înguste ale unui oraÅŸ vechi ea creÅŸte ÅŸi ne verific? dezr?d?cinarea.

Men's minds need a simple truth, an answer which delivers them from their questions, a gospel, a tomb. The moments of refinement conceal a death-principle: nothing is more fragile than subtlety.

Se poate prevedea destinul unui om, dar nu cel al unei c?r?i.

Man accepts death but not the hour of his death. To die any time, except when one has to die!

A little more fervor in my nihilism and I might — gainsaying everything — shake off my doubts and triumph over them. But I have only the taste of negation, not its grace.

The mind that puts everything in question reaches, after a thousand interrogations, an almost total inertia, a situation which the inert, in fact, knows from the start, by instinct. For what is inertia but a congenital perplexity?

It is of no importance to know who I am since some day I shall no longer be"—that is what each of us should answer those who bother about our identity and desire at any price to coop us up in a category or a definition.

get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression.

What's wrong—what's the matter with you?" Nothing, nothing's the matter, I've merely taken a leap outside my fate, and now I don't know where to turn, what to run for. . . .

Getting up with my head full of plans, I would be working, I was sure of it, all morning long. No sooner had I sat down at my desk than the odious, vile, and persuasive refrain: "What do you expect of this world?" stopped me short. And I returned, as usual, to my bed with the hope of finding some answer, of going back to sleep.

After the Spanish publication of the 'Précis,' two Andalusian students asked me if it was possible to live without "fundamentación." I answered that it was true that I had found no solid basis anywhere and that I had nonetheless managed to endure, for with the years one got used to everything, even vertigo. Then, too, one does not constantly keep watch and interrogate oneself, absolute lucidity being incompatible with breathing.

Getting up with my head full of plans, I would be working, I was sure of it, all morning long. No sooner had I sat down at my desk than the odious, vile, and persuasive refrain: "What do you expect of this world?" stopped me short. And I returned, as usual, to my bed with the hope of finding some answer, of going back to sleep...

What's wrong--what's the matter with you?' Nothing, nothing's the matter, I've merely taken a leap outside my fate, and now I don't know where to turn, what to run for....

Death reaches so far, requires so much room, that I no longer know where to die.

But we are fundamentally, biologically unsuited to "understand.

In anxiety, a man clings to whatever can reinforce, can stimulate his providential discomfort