Quotes About Uncertainty

Do not expect too much of the end of the world.

But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you.

At that time, Charlie Parker was trying to work up on something," recalled his friend Clarence Davis, "but he didn't know what he was doing. He was fishing, but nothing was biting.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

There is a certain discomfort in not knowing who the boss is, and subjects sometimes frantically sought to determine this.

What was true and solid begins to slide, dissolve. Your thoughts unravel faster than a satin ribbon Whose edge hasn't been burned Until you sit amidst a tangle of limp, pink threads, Unable to reason At all.

And if, indeed, there is nothing beyond the corner? Who can affirm if beyond so-called 'reality' anything exists at all? Beyond a reality that I have probably created? As long as I'm steeped in this reality up to my neck, as long as it is sufficient for me—everything is tolerable. But what would happen if I wanted one day to lean out of my safe environment and glance beyond its borders?

Korku cezadan çok daha beterdir, çünkü ceza bellidir, a??r da olsa, hafif de, hiçbir zaman belirsizliÄŸin dehÅŸeti kadar, o sonsuz gerilimin ürkünçlüÄŸü kadar kötü deÄŸildir.

Hiçbir ÅŸey zekay? tutkulu bir kuÅŸku kadar bileyemez. Hiçbir ÅŸey olgunlaÅŸmam?? bir zihnin bütün olanaklar?n? karanl?kta kaybolan bir iz kadar harekete geçiremez.

But there, war does not care for predetermination; it also destroys in fury that wich is immaterial, the hopes and expectations (from Requiem for a Hotel /Nekrolog auf ein Hotel,1918)

La paura è peggio del castigo; perché alla fine il castigo è qualcosa di determinato e, sia pesante o meno, è sempre meglio della spaventosa incertezza, della tremenda tensione che si prolunga all'infinito.

But I don't really know where to go. I have no plans and no destination in mind - I feel I can't live in either of my two worlds...

Jusqu'au dernier moment l'homme qui, doué d'une volonté prométhéenne, veut arracher à la terre son secret sentira la griffe du doute lui déchirer le cÅ"ur.

As if I already had some inkling of my own future fate, I was most moved by those of the people here who had no homeland, or even worse, had not just one but two or three, and privately still did not feel sure where they belonged.

Pero ¡Quién sabe!: Lo que aún no es, bien podría llegar a ser algún día

The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

Whatever might happen in life, whether I liked it or didn't like it, I could know one thing for sure: it would change. There was absolute certainty in uncertainty, in some ways an enormous comfort.

I felt a great fear rise up in my heart: for what should my world be, after all, without Lord Harold in it?

She had no doubt the man would kill her. Stupid things went skating through her mind--she'd never told her mother how much she loved her chocolate cupcakes... or Felicia what a kind friend she'd been... or Keith that it was cool and mature that he owned a house, even if it was in Brooklyn.

I know I asked, but I don't want to know. I do want to know, but I don't want to know. It doesn't matter. If it's not Tayeb whoever, it'll be something else, and I'd always be playing catch-up. I was always playing catch-up.

She didn't know where she was, and there was nowhere for her to go, and for just one moment, sweat pouring down her face, she felt free.

A relationship doesn't work until you accept that it may break up tomorrow, and if it does you'll be all right.

Si vienes aquí, puedo garantizarte que esta noche no regresarás a tu cama. ¿Me he expresado con claridad?