Quotes About Uncertainty

She just wasn't sure she had yet been to the place she was homesick for.

I was twenty-six years old and I wasn't really sure about what I was. You probably wouldn't look at me twice. An ordinary girl, leading an ordinary life. It actually suited me fine.

You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.

Because there would be lonely days. And bad days. And days when I wondered what the hell I had just agreed to be part of. Because that was all part of the adventure too.

And yet. To commit to Sam was to commit to the likelihood of more loss.

Ich habe vor langer Zeit gelernt, dass "was wäre, wenn…" ein gefährliches Spiel ist.

This was the story of our lives: minor insurrections, tiny victories, a brief chance to ridicule our oppressors, little floating vessels of hope amid a great sea of uncertainty, deprivation and fear.

Um silêncio aturdido é diferente de qualquer outro, percebi nesse momento. Estende-se, ganhando peso, e depois implode sob o peso das perguntas por fazer.

I thought I was happy. I thought my life was fine. And then you came along, and nothing . . . nothing makes sense anymore.

He had this way of talking where you could never quite be sure that he wasn't mocking you.

the only people who still have all the answers are those who have never been faced with the questions.

It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched out ahead of you.

Captain," she said, "the only people who still have all the answers are those who have never been faced with the questions.

things I learned about being a parent, while not actually being a parent: That whatever you did would probably be wrong.

I felt suddenly, unbearably tired. I felt this peculiar urge to say sorry, and I wasn't sure what for.

Bilmiyorum... Sanki çörek yerine... donut olmu?sun gibi...

Her life these days held a constant underlying drumbeat of worry.

I would show him the hotel brochure, but

This time the silence was painful. I heard my voice slowly swallowed by it, and couldn't work out what to do with my hands.

And I pressed send, realizing, as it whooshed into the ether, that I had now condemned myself to unknown hours of e-mail-related anxiety while I waited for him to respond

Um, Jess?" "Not now, Nicky." The police car was pulling over, too. Tanzie's palms had begun to sweat. *It will all be fine.* "I guess this isn't the time to tell you I brought my stash with me.

No two months had ever left me feeling more inadequate. I was lonely almost all the time. I hated not knowing where I was going to sleep each night, was permanently anxious about train timetables and currency, found it difficult to make friends when I didn't trust anyone I met. And what could I say about myself, anyway? When people asked me, I could give them only the most cursory details. All the stuff that was important or interesting about me was what I couldn't share.

I'd felt flat all day, struggling with the stasis that comes from not having a job to go to, worries about how I was going to pay my bills, and being trapped in an apartment with someone else who similarly had nowhere to go and I was unwilling to leave by herself.

Per la prima volta mi chiesi se la mia vita - la vita di chiunque altro - sarebbe davvero rimasta la stessa.