Quotes About Uncertainty

Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.

We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?

We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways.

There, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white... something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell.

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

For life be, after all, only a waiting for something else than what we're doing, and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses. Not knowing what to trust, I did not know what to do; and so had only to keep on working in what had hitherto been the groove of my life. The groove ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted myself.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't, you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

God will act in His own way and time. Do not fear, and do not rejoice as yet; for what we wish for at the moment may be our undoings. - Van Helsing, Dracula

God will act in His own way and time. Do not fear, and do not rejoice as yet; for what we wish for at the moment may be our undoings.

La vida es después de todo una espera por algo distinto de lo que estamos haciendo y la muerte es en lo único que podemos confiar con certeza.

I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for, that I may not go mad, if, indeed, I be not mad already.

La naturaleza trabaja sobre unas bases de esperanza tales que creemos, aun contra nuestras propias creencias, que las cosas saldrán como deben salir, no como sabemos que saldrán.

It contained a spell for turning Members of Parliament into useful members of society and now, just when Uncle Auberon thought he had a use for it, he could not find it

As to what they might be resting upon, Stephen was determined not to consider).

There was no one there. Which is to say there was someone there. Miss Wintertowne lay upon the bed, but it would have puzzled philosophy to say now whether she were someone or no one at all. They

Of all the tiresome situations in the world, thought the Prince Regent, the most tiresome was to rise from one's bed in a state of uncertainty as to whether or not one was the ruler of Great Britain.

Strange smiled. Or rather he twisted something in his face and Sir Walter supposed that he was smiling. Sir Walter could not really recall what his smile had looked like before.

I thought that I was going to die; or else that I would be swept away to Unknown Halls, far from the rush and thrum of Familiar Tides. I clung on.

I left the Embrace of the Faun and wandered miserably through the House. I believed that I was mad – or that I had been mad – or else that I was becoming mad now. Whichever way it was, it was a terrifying prospect. After a while I decided that this way of going on did no good at all.