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Quotes About Uncertainty

It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know.
~ Georges Perec
Ya bir devam? vard?r,ya da yoktur.. Ya anlat?labilecek bir devam? vard?r,ya da yoktur.
~ Georges Perec
Franz Kafka'n?n vakti zaman?nda aç?klad??? gibi: Ula??lacak bir amaç vard?r ama yol yoktur; karars?zl?klar?m?za, duraksamalar?m?za yol ad?n? takar?z.
~ Georges Perec
Atlamak zorunluydu, bunun bir anlam? olabileceÄŸine ve insan?n kendisinin bile bilmediÄŸi yans?malar? olabileceÄŸine ikna olmak için kendini atmak zorunluydu.
~ Georges Perec
It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know.
~ Georges Perec
I felt for too long anyway that there was something creaky about this story. You needn't try to understand, but when all the material clues manage to confuse matters rather than clarify them, it means they've been faked … and everything, without exception, is fake in this case. It all creaked.
~ Georges Simenon
I'm at sea, lieutenant … We probably both are. Except that you, you fight the waves, you mean to go in a definite direction, whereas I let myself drift with the current, clutching here and there on a passing branch.
~ Georges Simenon
He now understood deathbed dramas. Everybody thinks about death. But only one person thinks about it for himself. The others know that in the morning the sun will come through the blinds and their coffee will be served. From The Reckoning
~ Georges Simenon
I'm worried that the chicken may be overcooked Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬â"¢ she said as she served Maigret. And her tone was the one in which she might have said, for example: 'I'm afraid of everything! I don't know what's going on. Holy Virgin, protect me!
~ Georges Simenon
If someone would have the goodness to inform me whether I am assisting at a tragedy or a farce I should be grateful
~ Georgette Heyer
Read that!" commanded madame dramatically, and handed her a crumpled sheet of paper. It contained a brief message in Juliana's sprawling characters: "My dear Tante, pray do not be in a taking, but I have gone with Vidal. I have No Time to write more, for I am in Desperate Haste. Juliana." "But—but it is not possible!" stammered Léonie, growing quite pale
~ Georgette Heyer
But as for Thaddeus Drybeck, words fail me!' The Inspector, placing no dependence on this statement, waited for her to continue.
~ Georgette Heyer
Everything hangs upon his return! He is
~ Georgette Heyer
It was always uncertainty that i feared most.
~ Gerda Weissmann Klein
but while you are wondering whether she be angel or devil, she is gone.
~ Gertrude Bell
There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
~ Gertrude Stein
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
~ Gertrude Stein
When is there some discharge when. There never is.
~ Gertrude Stein
Cloudiness what is cloudiness, is it a lining, is it a roll, is it melting.
~ Gertrude Stein
There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. (Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures)
~ Gertrude Stein
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer
~ Gertrude Stein
Tha know where thy are we' ferrets. Ya never know where ya are we' lasses
~ Gervase Phinn
School might be closing
~ Gervase Phinn
Do you know there's no word in Kurdish for plan? You get worried if someone's on time, because it means they have bad news. Or they want something. Also, I said I might come. Not that I would.
~ Gian Sardar