Quotes About Uncertainty

DüÅŸüncenin yakla??kl??? ile gerçeÄŸin kesinliÄŸi aras?nda düÅŸlenemez olan?n yaratt??? küçük bir boÅŸluk vard? ve onun bir türlü peÅŸini b?rakmayan da bu boÅŸluktu.

Hiçbir tehlike olmamas?na raÄŸmen, hayat?ndaki bir an?n diÄŸer bütün anlar gibi hiçliÄŸe dönüÅŸecek yerde zaman?n ak???ndan kopar?laca??n? ve gün gelip aptalca bir rastlant?n?n sonucunda iyi gömülmemiÅŸ bir ceset gibi canland?r?laca??n? düÅŸünerek belli bir s?k?nt? duymaktan alam?yordu kendini.

We can never know what we want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come...And so....there is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison.

I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be. (I was frightened by the differences between one face and the next; none of them seemed to fit me properly, and I groped my way clumsily among them.

The situation is very slightly solemn and thus embarrassing, as are all such situations when after the initial lovemaking, the lovers confront a future they are suddenly required to take on.

Non si può mai sapere che cosa si deve volere perché si vive una vita soltanto e non si può ne confrontarla con le proprie vite precedenti, né correggerla nelle vite future.

The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.

B?t c? ai có ý ??nh mu?n vÆ°Æ¡n lên tá»›i cái gì cao hÆ¡n ??u ph?i tiên li?u ngày nào Ä'ó s? m?c ph?i c?n b?nh s? hãi Ä'á»™ cao.

y life is always like a sketch. No, sketch is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

a man has a right to fear dangers that are less than likely to occur.

Não existe meio de verificar qual é a boa decisão, pois não existe termo de comparação. Tudo é vivido pela primeira vez e sem preparação. Como se um ator entrasse em cena sem nunca ter ensaiado. Mas o que pode valer a vida, se o primeiro ensaio da vida já é a própria vida?

He was not at all sure he was doing the right thing, but he was sure he was doing what he wanted to do.

?loveško življenje se dogodi le enkrat, zato ne bomo nikoli zanesljivo vedeli, katera naša odlo?itev je bila prava in katera napa?na, zakaj v dani situaciji smo se lahko odlo?ili le enkrat. Ni nam bilo dano nobeno drugo, tretje življenje, da bi mogli razli?ne odlo?itve primerjati med seboj.

Aquel que quiere permanentemente «llegar más alto» tiene que contar con que algún día le invadirá el vértigo.

He was not sure he was doing the right thing, but he was sure he was doing what he wanted to do.

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs outside of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message as much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.

the whole mystery

Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia.

la vida humana acontece solo una vez y por eso nunca podremos averiguar cuáles de nuestras decisiones fueron correctas y cuáles incorrectas.

La coquetería es una promesa de coito sin garantía.

Manejava o volante, sentia-se segura de si mesma e bela, e pensava ainda: seria verdadeiramente o amor que a amarrava a Klima ou tão-só o medo de perdê-lo? E se esse medo era de inicio a forma ansiosa do amor, com o passar do tempo não teria o amor (fatigado e esgotado) fugido aos poucos dessa forma? E não teria ficado, no fim de tudo, apenas esse medo, o medo sem amor? E o que restaria se o próprio medo desaparecesse?

He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. Was it better to be with Tereza or to remain alone? There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison.

Necessity knows no magic formulae—they are all left to chance.