Quotes About Uncertainty

I wonder why that is. I wonder why anything is.

What the deer feels in the second she sees the hunter with his gun I seemed to feel for long stretches of hours and days. I was poised for flight like any creature might be but where I was to flee I didn't know.

Other times you had a rake of our lads killed, and a rake of the old grey-suited devils, and you wouldn't know who had won the fucking thing, sure how could you tell boys?

Jemand anderes mischt die Karten, mit denen wir spielen, und sooft wir darüber verzweifeln, so dankbar sind wir letzten Endes über die Gnade des Systems. Denn würden wir den Weg des Lebens weitergehen, wenn wir die Zukunft sehen könnten?

Manchmal blubbert es, und du denkst, gleich machst du dir in den Schlüpper, doch dann ist es nur Aftersausen?" - Gerlinde

Todos los que tenían una cuenta de ahorro, una hipoteca o cualquier otro tipo de inversión vieron cómo éstas desaparecían de la noche a la mañana. Pronto dejó de importar si se trataba de una calderilla ahorrada o de un gran capital. Todo se esfumó.

En las calles tampoco se notaba nada. Business as usual. Pero en el aire flotaba aún la sensación del acercamiento estruendoso de lo desconocido...

The older generation had become uncertain and timid in its ideals and convictions and began to focus on "youth," with thoughts of abdication, flattery, and high expectations.

terror, de modo que ninguna de las dos

Love is like the weather in Nevada--you don't know what the freak happens!

Ja, vem var hon, att hon kunde våga påstå, att allt det här spektaklet med Karl-Artur, det var ingenting? Det var inte samvetskval, det var inte någon straffdom, det var just jämnt ingenting.

Mortality is a cause for humility, she said to me. None of us knows when he might be taken, as your blessed father was taken. Death, like birth, comes to us all, regardless of rank or station in life.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Doubt not without hoping, hope not without doubting (free after Seneca)

Este o veche frica fata de mul?ime, mai ales când emana frica ?i ca atare reac?iile ii devin imprevizibile.

Le persone, per la maggior parte, considerano insolubili i problemi la ci soluzione non va loro a genio. Così continuano senza sosta a fare domande, anche se non hanno affatto bisogno di avere risposte sincere...

Isn't that always the way! Just when you really want to know if you did the right thing or not. But no one will ever answer that question for you.

The past is not important. The present is inconsequential. The future is indeterminate. He

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

La paranoia —que para mí es un estado de acceso a la verdad— se ponía a descascararlo todo con sus garritas de hurón: no podía evitarlo.

There is an awful feeling of inevitability to life. Maybe this feeling is some proof of the existence of fate... or more likely it's simply the way our brains function that gives us this illusion. It's hard to say for certain.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.