Quotes About Uncertainty

O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul.

Our drifting home had no rudder to guide it, no sail to give it speed. We

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.

His wife spotted the danger in our resolutely bohemian ways. "You have only one year left before you qualify as a doctor and yet you're going away? You have no idea when you'll be back? But why?" We couldn't give precise answers to her desperate questions and this horrified her...

They moved with the insouciance of those that have nothing to do, two aimless characters in search of a story that would deign to have them, but not in a hurry to commit to any particular type of narrative.

The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.

None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-being disappear and are transformed into omens of destruction. The luxury liner becomes a battleship, or the black jolly roger and the red executioner's flag are hoisted on it.

A hairdresser talking with the Doctoresse about the bombing: - "I'm not afraid of it. The dead are better off than we are." - "But you don't know that." - "Yes, I do. I'm sure of it because not a single one of them has ever returned.

Si el miedo no existiera, carecería de sentido el valor; el miedo es la sombra oscura contra cuyo trasfondo aparece más multicolor y atrayente el riesgo.

We bring our chips to the table and gamble for infinitely high stakes. We are like children who play for beans without knowing that each one of them contains the potential for the marvels of blossoms and May.

We were all of us cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why.

Allora ti piace l'amore?" " E' pericoloso. Ci scappano ferite e poi per la giustizia altre ferite. Non è serenata al balcone, somiglia a una mareggiata di libeccio, strapazza il mare sopra, e sotto lo rimescola. Non lo so se mi piace.

You're right to say "hold on to" instead of "keep." To keep is presumptuous. To hold means you realize that today it's yours and tomorrow who knows.

vague, very vague.

Even if I should be right in this, I do not know whether my way of approach is really the best and simplest. But, in short, it was mine.

There is a difference between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fog banks

MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

THE STRIKING CONTRAST

My current life, I realized, was constructed around an absence; for all its richness I still felt as if the floors might give way, as if its core were only a covering of leaves, and I would slip through, falling endlessly, never to get my footing.

How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unknown?

If every hero stopped to think about all the what-ifs in his path, none of us would ever take one step beyond our own doorways.

DiÄŸer serserilerden pek fark? yoktu Kobi'nin. Ä°nsan?n asl?nda çirkin mi yoksa aptal m? olduÄŸuna karar veremediÄŸi tiplerden

I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.