Quotes About Uncertainty

Because this is just what a nightmare is. Walking about among people you know, looking in their faces- and suddenly the faces change- and it's not someone you know any longer- it's a stranger- a cruel stranger.

I know he'll probably always be like it, but I love him. I may be able to help him and I may not. But I'll take that risk.

Melchett said gloomily, 'Well, we know where we are -- or rather, where we aren't!' 'Where we aren't expresses it rather better, sir.

Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.

But I always find it prudent to suspect everybody just a little. What I say is, you really never know, do you?

The trouble in this life is that you never really know where you're going. ~Andy Peters

He did not know- he simply did not know. But he felt he ought to know.

Oh no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action.

But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know? I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions. He would just give me the usual answers. I want to know. We shall none of us know until we are dead ourselves.

I neither see nor comprehend. You make all these confounded mysteries, and it's useless asking you to explain. You always like keeping something up your sleeve to the last minute.

Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt.

One does not like to make definite assertions unless one has a little more definite knowledge.

it is the future that causes one inquietude.

I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of them are not, and half the time the best of them don't know what is the matter with you.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

Life was not a matter of safety— it must be hazarded to win the game.

Masa muda adalah masa yang rawan. Masa muda itu kejam, sekaligus penuh keyakinan. Penuh harapan, juga penuh persyaratan.

It makes one feel such a fool," said Mrs. Oliver, ruefully, "not to be able to be definite.

Heart failure may always be translated as the inability of the local GP to discover what his patient really did die of...

But you see, Miss Helier, this isn't a serial story. This is real life; and real life stops just where it chooses.

mucho. —¿Y yo? —¿Tú? —Sí, yo. —¡Oh, yo no podría! —¿Por qué no? —No, porque no puedo.

Lombard thought: Awkward, this—am I supposed to have met them or not? He said quickly: "There's a wasp crawling up your arm. No—keep quite still.

tell you, Hastings. This is all very black—very black." "Always darkest before dawn," I said reassuringly.