Quotes About Uncertainty

So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.

You can be certain of what you've done, you can judge death, but to save a man – that takes more than six years of training, and in the end you can never be quite sure that it was you who saved him.

You kill a man – that is so easy,' Dr Hasselbacher said, 'it needs no skill. You can be certain of what you've done, you can judge death, but to save a man – that takes more than six years of training, and in the end you can never be quite sure that it was you who saved him. Germs are killed by other germs. People just survive.

Henry was living in a terrible insecurity. To that extent his plight was worse than mine. I had the security of possessing nothing.

With goodness one can feel secure; why wasn't I satisfied with goodness, why did I always ask her the wrong questions?

Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn't know, nor how, except by taking a look around at the little I would be leaving.

The ambiguity was that attraction.

So much of war is sitting around doing nothing, waiting for someone else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left, it doesn't seem worth starting even a train of thought.

face a little smudged with tears. She asked, 'Was it

We are fools when we love. I was terrified of losing her. I thought I saw her changing--I don't know if she really was, but I couldn't bear the uncertainty any longer. I ran toward the finish just like a coward runs toward the enemy and wins a medal. I wanted to get death over.

So much of the war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth starting even a train of thought.

Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn't know, nor how, except by taking a look at the little I will be leaving.

One never knows another human being;

She had said, 'We're unlucky. We don't believe in God. So it's no use praying. If we did I could say beads, burn candles—oh, a hundred things. As it is, I can only keep my fingers crossed.

I suppose in all lives a moment comes when we wonder--suppose after all there is a God, suppose the theologians are right.

if you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

The human capacity for horror is a fickle thing, my friends, and hangs over an abyss by a frayed thread.

When you have come to the edge of all that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen. … That there will be something solid to stand on or you'll be taught to fly. - Warmaster Horus

When the future remains so unclear, why does the past so often intrude? Because it is all that is definite.

after feminist politics and the age of the New Man … no one knows what's going on anymore' (Sierz 2001: 191). This

And she supposed—the furrowed face would bloom again—that it was a very common human predicament. To be at a loss, not to know what to do with yourself.

What's the worst that can happen? I thought. I'll shit myself and choke on my own vomit in the back of a taxi or onstage. At least I'll die with dignity.

I'm not sure how I see things anymore," Mitch said. "Having your body jerked around by nature is sobering. Women experience it more directly, but this has got to be a first for the men.

You always knew what you wanted to be didn't you? He asked Edward. More or less. Smart moves, a gynecologist. Never false moves. I was different, I had goals but no direction. Like a map without roads, just places to be.