Quotes About Uncertainty

En épocas extrañas hasta la muerte puede morir.

One could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horizontal, hence the relative position of everything else seemed phantasmally variable.

Rara vez deja de haber ironía incluso en el mayor de los horrores.

But I do not fear him now, for I suspect that he has known horrors beyond my ken. Now I fear for him.

Who knows the end? What

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.

When it comes to horror, I always prefer the nebulous & the implied to the physical & the described.

I hurried back before sunset to my hotel, unwilling to have the stars come out above me in the open; and the next day returned to Boston to give up my position. I could not go into that dim chaos of old forest and slope again, or face another time that grey blasted heath where the black well yawned deep beside the tumbled bricks and stones.

for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures

There were creakings, scurryings, and hoarse doubtful noises; and I thought uncomfortably about the hidden tunnels suggested by the grocery boy.

Is it possible that even my latest fear is sheer delusion?

But the stream of Time, swift flowing, Brings the torment of half-knowing

All the objects—organic and inorganic alike—were totally beyond description or even comprehension. Gilman sometimes compared the inorganic masses to prisms, labyrinths, clusters of cubes and planes, and Cyclopean buildings; and the organic things struck him variously as groups of bubbles, octopi, centipedes, living Hindoo idols, and intricate Arabesques roused into a kind of ophidian animation.

If you get into danger, either you perish or you escape.

All birds are perhaps a little wrong, because an absolute once-and-for-all formula for a bird has never been found, just as all novels are bad because the correct formula for a novel has never been found.

The best stories are the open ones, those you don't quite understand.

Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.

Because it is about that which we can't be prepared for—the great test we men have passed before, but have no way of knowing we will pass again.

Religion tells you everything when there is disarray.

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility??of being unable to undo what one has done??is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.

Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of modern mankind. The more equal conditions are, the less explanation there is for the differences that actually exist between people; and thus all the more unequal do individuals and groups become.

Il rimedio all'imprevedibilità della sorte,alla caotica incertezza del futuro è la facoltà do fare e mantenere promesse

do not know if he means to use that sword to help us or to prod us into the hands of our enemies. The Scotsman could well be one of those DeVeau hirelings." Guy shook

I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.