Quotes About Uncertainty

Tener fe es sostener una loca y desproporcionada lucha con las más descomunales y antojadizas fuerzas que nos rodean para obtener al cabo algo tan mísero, nebuloso e incierto como es la esperanza. Esperar que un día… ¿Que un día qué?

Boleslao no lo sabe, pero lo que le pasa es que no cree en la vida cumulativa. Siempre ha temido ser devorado por la vida, esa cosa de mil bocas y mil cabezas.

no me atrevo a mirarme en los espejos, por si es verdad que no tengo oreja, y me peino el pelo para ese lado, por ocultar lo que no sé si no existe." Fragmento de: Francisco Umbral. "La belleza convulsa". iBooks.

We are afraid of the unknown, of what is beyond our perception of reality, which is why we buy into consensus reality, pretending to know who and where we are, what is real and unreal. Yet the unknown is waiting for each one of us behind the corner and sooner or later it will prevail. Then, of whom we pretend to be, of where we are, nothing will be left.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

But I killed you," Alyss said. "Did you?" Red turned to The Cat. "Why wasn't I informed?

After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'" -Dodge(obviously)

I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?

All the evil in the universe was concentrated in their lean, hungry bodies. Or had they bodies? I saw them only for a moment; I cannot be certain. But I heard them breathe.

The law is that you must live in the house you have built. The law is absurd: it is written down nowhere. You are uncertain what crime is, though each life writhing to elude what it has made feels like punishment.

The house seems to shudder in that moment as if the entire world has shifted an inch to the right…

The first rule in questioning any witness is: Never ask a question if you are not sure what the answer will be. - Brice Mack

I've just had very bad news." "What's the good news inside it? There's always good news wrapped up in bad news." "Jesus God, I don't know." "But there is." "That's ludicrously optimistic." Lelia said, "You'll have to use smaller words, you're in Clare now." Ronan

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

You say yes to the mess by surrendering control-by opening yourself up to the capriciousness of the crowd, with no guarantee of success for your efforts. Ultimately, that takes one quality above all others: courage.

Noi viviamo solo conoscendo qualche cosa del futuro; mentre i problemi della vita o almeno della condotta derivano dal fatto che noi ne conosciamo troppo poco.

Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here.

I seem to be defying fate, or am I avoiding it?

I wanted to be sure to reach you;though my ship was on the way it got caughtin some moorings. I am always tying upand then deciding to depart.

It wasn't clear what "emerging" meant, or how these markets might "emerge." Still, it sounded awfully good, and it helped cloud the fact that the emerging bond an investor bought actually was a Peruvian loan that hadn't paid any interest since the 1800s.

There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.

Well, I don't know how many years on this Earth I got left. I'm gonna get real weird with it.