Quotes About Uncertainty

Time means lives. Time means more chaos. We always think that time will resolve things, but it never has.

When soon I sail from here, I may again run into such a storm as the one in Kvasefjord. But this time I shall clearly understand that it is not a play in the theatre, but it is death. and it seems too that then, in the last moment before we go down, I can in in all truth be yours...

Sometimes, just when we think we can see our lives on course and we can settle back and get comfortable, a new path opens. Some people just keep going, too scared to veer off the familiar path. But others, well, they step off into the unknown, and find that maybe that was where they were supposed to be all along.

Everything I've ever learned has brought me to this one conclusion – we are all thrown into this world without a road map, and it's up to us to muddle through. We are free to make a mess of it or to make a success out of our lives. Most of us choose something in between.

Things always change, Eva. You cannot control change. You can only be prepared for it.

She had always scorned Hamlet, just a little. Five acts of vacillation, scene after scene of contemplation instead of action, putting on

Suuret päätökset tehdään kauppakeskuksen tuulikaapissa perjantaina puoli viisi ja tuntemattomien kuullen.

Svårt att vara oviss, rädd och delad, svårt att känna djupet dra och kalla, ändå sitta kvar och bara darra - svårt att vilja stanna och vilja falla.

Thus we are driven, lost souls, from camp-fire flame to camp-fire flame, know nothing of our next rest and nothing of the journey's aim

Take away security to leave room for experience.

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations. "If I can but grasp it, if I can but cognise it", so he thinks, "I can make it my servant.

Every truth that we may think complete will prove itself untruth at the moment of shipwreck.

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

Medicines heal doubts as well as diseases.

The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.

Önemli olan, eylemlerimizin önceden kestirilemeyen sonuçlar? hakk?nda ne kadar az bilgiye sahip olabilece?imizin bilincinde olmam?zd?r.

Hiçbir ?ey bilmiyoruz - bu birincisi. Bu yüzden çok alçakgönüllü olmal?y?z - bu ikincisi. Bilmedi?imiz halde bildi?imizi iddia etmemeliyiz. - bu da üçüncüsü. Halka sevdirmek istedi?im yakla??m kabaca budur. Ama gelece?i pek parlak görünmüyor. (Hayat Problem Çözmektir)

It's not that simple." "Ah! That phrase is Male for 'I'm afraid to.

The great uncertainty of all data in war is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently—like the effect of a fog or moonshine—gives to things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.

War is the province of danger.

A shiftless clerk, I take the days on trust, Nor strip them of their spoil before they go.

She is like a dark plum, he thought. She might be sweet when you bit into her, but it was just as likely she'd be bitter. He liked not knowing which side he'd taste.

I'm bad at relationships--I'm not gonna lie. And maybe you and I would be a mistake, but maybe we wouldn't. All I know is that if we don't try, we'll never know.

He's a wonderful person and I'd fall head over heels in love with him if I haven't already, there's no doubt about it. And there's no doubt that he'd eventually leave me. There's no way anything between us would go somewhere. I'm done with flings. I want the next thing--the real thing.