Quotes About Uncertainty

I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.

The past is unclear. It's as if there is a film over those early years. I can't even be sure that the things I remember happening really happened to me.

Maybe once, maybe years ago, I was a different kind of human being. I've forgotten, I don't know for sure.

He did not know what to do. Not just now, he thought, not just in this, not just about this, today and tomorrow, but every day on the earth.

He was going somewhere, he knew that. And if it was the wrong direction, sooner or later he'd find it out.

after a minute, you continue writing. she screams again. you wonder how long this can go on.

He left through the patio door. He was not certain, but he thought he had proved something. He hoped he had made something clear. The thing was, they had to have a serious talk soon. There were things that needed talking about, important things that had to be discussed. They'd talk again. Maybe after the holidays were over and things got back to normal. He'd tell her the goddamn ashtray was a goddamn dish, for example.

Teníamos esa extraña sensación de que, ahora que nos dábamos cuenta de que ya había sucedido todo, podía suceder cualquier cosa.

Nick e Joanne guardavano l'incendio tenendosi stretti, ma mentre lei gli accarezzava distrattamente una spalla, Nick fu assalito dalla sensazione familiare, che ogni tanto lo attanagliava, di non sapere bene a cosa lei stesse pensando.

The woman and the white-haired old man looked at the clock, as if it might tell them something about their situation and what they were supposed to do next.

I lit a cigarette and dragged a smoking stand beside the chair. The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips. I looked the place over. You can't tell anything about an outfit like that. They might be making millions, and they might have the sheriff in the back room, with his chair tilted against the safe.

I suppose you do this to all the clients," she said softly.

I was in the deep water. It was dark and unclear and the taste of the salt was in my mouth.

They never tell you why they are doing anything. That way you don't find out they don't know themselves.

You know who they are?" Tony said softly. "I could maybe give nine guesses. And twelve of them would be right." (I'll be waiting)

You mean something happened to him?" Her voice faded off into sort of a sad whisper, like a mortician asking for a down payment.

in a voice with half the steps missing.

She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before. Light

Of course I have no right to assume that I shall go to heaven. Sounds rather dull, as a matter of fact.

In Hollywood anything can happen, anything at all.

One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

when I get knocked off in a dark alley sometime, if it happens, as it could to anyone in my business, and to plenty of people in any business or no business at all these days, nobody will feel that the bottom has dropped out of his or her life.