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Quotes About Uncertainty

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen.
~ Haruki Murakami
I wake up, but where? I don't just think this, I actually voice the question to myself: Where am I? As if I didn't know: I'm here. In my life. A feature of the world that is my existence.
~ Haruki Murakami
I still have that fear, even now—that suddenly my very existence will be denied and, through no fault of my own, I'll be hurled into the night sea once more. Maybe that's why I haven't been able to form deep relationships with people. I always keep a distance between me and others." He
~ Haruki Murakami
Life: I'll never understand it.
~ Haruki Murakami
I wonder what either of us knows about love. Our love has never been tested.
~ Haruki Murakami
I was living someone else's life, not my own. How much of this person I called myself was really me? And how much was not? These hands clutching the steering wheel - what percentage of them could I really call my own? The scenery outside - how much of it was real? The more I thought about it, the less I seemed to understand.
~ Haruki Murakami
Considering the sense of powerlessness that such a state of affairs would bring about, to have people floating in a pool of mysterious question marks seems like a minor sin.
~ Haruki Murakami
It made me wonder how other people saw me. Not that I had any way of knowing, of course.
~ Haruki Murakami
the world's filled with things I don't know about.
~ Haruki Murakami
You have let something out of the bag before you yourself knew what it was all about. That can be awfully dangerous
~ Haruki Murakami
Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip and forgotten to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows—maybe even tomorrow.
~ Haruki Murakami
I'm caught between one void and another. I have no idea what's right, what's wrong. I don't even know what I want any more.
~ Haruki Murakami
In truly deep darkness, all kinds of strange things were possible.
~ Haruki Murakami
I'm free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can't really understand what it means. All I know is I'm totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free?
~ Haruki Murakami
Like Naokuo, I'm not really sure what it means to love another person. Though she meant it a little differently. I do want to try my best though. I have to, or else I won't know where to go. Like you said before, Naoko and I have to save each other. It's the only was for us to be saved!
~ Haruki Murakami
I don't know, but does it matter?
~ Haruki Murakami
I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a word, and I'd be left all alone.
~ Haruki Murakami
People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither if us know anything substantial about the other.
~ Haruki Murakami
If there had been a door within reach that led straight to death, he wouldn't have hesitated to push it open, without a second thought.
~ Haruki Murakami
El conocimiento es así. El mundo cambia según nuestra percepción. Existe, sin duda alguna, aquí y de esta forma, pero, desde el punto de vista fenoménico el mundo no es sino una posibilidad entre un número infinito de posibilidades. Para ser más preciso, el mundo cambia según dé uno un paso hacia la derecha o hacia la izquierda. Por lo tanto, el mundo se modifica a medida que cambian los recuerdos.
~ Haruki Murakami
There are — how do you say — things in this world our philosophy cannot account for.
~ Haruki Murakami
And probably is a word whose weight is incalculable.
~ Haruki Murakami
All I know is I'm totally alone. All alone i n an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don't know, and I give up thinking about it.
~ Haruki Murakami
We don't find out what's waiting for us around the next corner until we turn it.
~ Haruki Murakami