Quotes About Uncertainty

I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.

without emboldening people to envisage the unlikely, we increase risk rather than diminish it.

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

the way of life found by a certain minded man but the way of life not even certain"

That's what I thought at the time. On second thought, perhaps I didn't really think at all.

Who could guess he'd have a tooth pulled by Shmelke the healer and lie down the next morning and die? It's as my mother says: "Tomorrow is another day—but whose?

There are only two people in the world I trust: you and me—and I'm not so sure about you.

Now it is raining, but we don't know what will happen in the next moment. By the time we go out it may be a beautiful day, or a stormy day. Since we don't know, let's appreciate the sound of the rain now.

Life is like stepping into a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink.

I find it impossible to imagine that the world will ever be normal again.

Vielleicht steht die Welt gerade am Beginn ihres Unterganges.

Glancing back over his shoulder seemed to be habit, for Touch had noticed him do it before, as if the man thought someone might be following him. "Stranger, what did you say your name was?" asked the blacksmith. "I didn't," answered the thief. In fact, he had, but he changed his name more often than his stockings, and now he couldn't remember what name he'd bestowed upon himself.

Not being able to find a cause is profoundly distressing; it creates anxiety because it implies a loss of control. The desire to find a cause is driven by fear.

In complex systems, after all, it is very hard to foresee or predict the consequences of presumed causes. So it is not the consequences that we should be afraid of (we might not even foresee them or believe them if we could). Rather, we should be weary of renaming things that negotiate their perceived risk down from what it was before.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

You don't know what can happen tomorrow. Life is like a novel, isn't it? It's filled with suspense. You never know what's going to happen until you turn the page.

Damals dachte ich zum ersten Mal daran, mit Stella zu leben. Es war ein jäher, ein tollkühner Gedanke, und heute weiß ich, es war ein in mancher Hinsicht unangemessener Gedanke, der nur entstehen konnte aus der Befürchtung, daß das, was mich mit Stella verband, ein Ende haben könnte. Wie selbstverständlich diese Sehnsucht nach Dauer aufkommt.

None of us could know how insignificant we were...

Non si sa mai cosa la vita ci metterà davanti,» diceva sempre suo padre. «Ma quello che sai, è come l'affronterai.»

The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of the self leaching away into the cloud.

Z morderstwem jest jak z ?yciem; i jedno, i drugie jest nieprzewidywalne.

Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous.