Quotes About Uncertainty

And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all, is a man who has surely failed, who ought to have adopted a less adventurous vocation

Is this what I had come to: the inability to trust even my best friend? If human beings cannot have faith in other human beings, despite all their mutual failures, then can they ever have faith in the Almighty, I wondered.

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

So that's what--one yes, one not sure, and one I had had a dream about a bug.

Welcome, Simon, to the world of those who are every day condemned to thinking and wondering and never ever knowing with certainness.

John Wulgaru, she thought when she got back. Her hands were shaking. Is that his name, then? Am I the only person who knows that? Or the only person still alive?

Just for once, Binabik, I want you to tell me there is an answer for something. I'm tired of thinking so much." The troll laughed. "The punishment for being born . . . no, perhaps that is too much to be calling that. The punishment for being truly alive—that is fair to say. Welcome, Simon, to the world of those who are every day condemned to thinking and wondering and never ever knowing with certainness.

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder." More

And what about lovers, like in the stories? Do they get married?" "Oh, yes. And sometimes they stay in love, but sometimes they don't. I would say it's one of the more untrustworthy reasons for marriage.

We go into unknown places." "As do all mortals

I don't know what to do,' he said at last. 'I don't know what will happen.' 'If you did, you would only be making a selection, not a choice.

Thank you, Duke," the troll said seriously. "May your god be blessing us indeed. We go into unknown places." "As do all mortals," Josua added. "Sooner or later.

There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.

That's the thing about digging holes," Quinn said. "There are no assurances you'll find what you want—or want what you find.

I told Ersken, Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today, he said, as good humored as always. Today we're doing to jump.

The gods like to make a man feel unprepared, so the wisewoment say

Safety is an illusion and perhaps it's better to challenge it sometimes, to see how far we can go, to learn about the stuff we are made of.

I see that. Where am I?' 'You are quite secure, Rachaela. You have all of us.' Rachaela quailed. 'But you're all mad.' Anna smiled her smile. 'What can I say to that.

His voice quivered; it had the harp-string note to it that belongs to some intense emotion of which the victim is himself uncertain, or at which he is in disorder. But it was a voice that meant to demand blood.

She did not understand what to do; she did not understand herself. All the amorphous pain that had welled up in her before, all that longing without a name, had now found a name, and with a name it was no better.

He stretched his crayoned mouth, and nodded, and there stood all his actors in a line, though somehow it was still hard to count them, still difficult to be sure how many of them there were.

The question was now blatant and astonishingly unanswerable. Had they been a boy and a gentleman in the roles of a girl and lady in the roles of a boy and a gentleman? Which? Either? Both?