Quotes About Uncertainty

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, and with a name it was no better.

Safe from what? she'd asked. And under her touch, Kovar's kigh had answered, Change.

The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back.

The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all.

You no longer know, amid all this, if what hurt still matters— — Tarjei Vesaas, from "Between Blue Shadows," Through Naked Branches: Selected Poems of Tarjei Vesaas (Black Widow Press, 2018;first published 2000)

Who's to say that gamblers don't really understand it better than anyone else? Isn't everything worthwhile a gamble? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?

Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right in front of you spins out of control and crashes. How you prepare for those unpredictable occurrences determines whether you live or die. Always leave an empty lane to your right or left for escape.

We've stepped off the cliff and are falling into madness.

Like the others, the children were clouded in a thin fog, though the cords of darkness weren't as developed.

my lack of faith was wearing thin

Anything might have been anything else and had as much meaning to it.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

The future is called perhaps, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

I'll be all right in a minute, I'm just bewildered - by life...

Hayat bir anda nas?l da tepetaklak olabiliyordu.Bir dakika her ?ey yolunda iken hemen sonra ikinci dakikada...kolayca mahvoluyordu.

at sixes and sevens

Angus felt himself filled with an age-old male terror -as if somehow his body knew what his mind refused to consider- that she might be The One, that somehow, no matter how hard he fought, she'd be pestering him for all eternity. And worse, that if she ever took it upon herself to stop pestering him, he might have to track her down and chain her to his side until she started up again.

Trump's ambitions and motivations notwithstanding, his legacy in the Middle East might best be characterized as tactical maneuvers and strategic incoherence. 3 Trump's actions and tweets left the Middle East in worse shape than what he had inherited, as his policy unorthodoxy created a great deal of uncertainty.

How life is strange and changeful! How little a thing is needed for us to be lost or to be saved!

because the results couldn't be guaranteed by the available

Everything seems perfect on the surface," I told him, "but sometimes I feel like I don't know what I'm doing, or where I really want to be, and I've always had this strange unexplainable urge to escape from wherever I am, because nothing seems quite enough, and I feel incredibly frustrated sometimes, like there's more to life out there somewhere, but I don't know what it is, or where it is. Do you ever feel that way?

The important thing is to keep getting up each day knowing that everything can turn on a dime. For better or for worse. Sometimes bad things happen, and people will always make mistakes, but isn't that how we learn and grow stronger? That's why we need to treasure each moment of every day, learn how to accept and forgive, and never fear what might be over the horizon, even if it looks dark and cloudy. Because it just might turn out to be the best day of your life.

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