Quotes About Uncertainty

To recognize the momentousness of what has happened is to apprehend what might happen. Inside the word emergency is emerge; from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters.

perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating between near and far.

By now you've noticed that Woolf says "I don't know" quite a lot.

To be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender, a psychic state achievable through geography.

We don't know what is going to happen, or how, or when, and that very uncertainty is the space of hope.

To me, the grounds for hope are simply that we don't know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and the unimaginable transpire quite regularly. And that the unofficial history of the world shows that dedicated individuals and popular movements can shape history and have, though how and when we might win and how long it takes is not predictable. Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it;

Woolf is celebrating getting lost, not literally lost as in not knowing how to find your way, but lost as in open to the unknown, and the way that physical space can provide psychic space.

The things that make our lives are so tenuous, so unlikely, that we barely come into being, barely meet the people we're meant to love, barely find our way in the woods, barely survive catastrophe every day.

Secondo me le basi della speranza sono, semplicemente: ignorare cosa succederà e sapere che l'improbabile e l'inimmaginabile accadranno con una certa regolarità. E che la storia non ufficiale nel mondo mostra come l'impegno degli individui e i movimenti popolari possano influenzarla e ottenere qualcosa, anche se non si può prevedere come e se ce la faremo, né quanto tempo ci vorrà.

J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, "live always at the 'edge of mystery'—the boundary of the unknown.

Perder cosas tiene que ver con la desaparición de lo conocido, perderse tiene que ver con la aparición de lo desconocido.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think. It's an extraordinary declaration, asserting that the unknown need not be turned into the known through false divination or the projection of grim political or ideological narratives; it's a celebration of darkness, willing – as that "I think" indicates—to be uncertain even about its own assertion.

Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead.

Connor: [about Sidda and Connor's wedding] Vivi, it's taken years to nail down a date. She's always said, What's the rush, when things are so good? I don't know what the hell she's so afraid of - it's like she's always waiting for the bottom to drop out. Vivi: You know why she thinks that, don't ya, honey? Because it did. It always did.

What a gamble it is to have children!

Every event of any magnitude changes life unpredictably.

Wild tehdy nevÄ›dÄ›l nic. A to nic naplnil vírou.

On ne sait jamais rien. Sauf ce qui est sans importance.

Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.

The continuum in which we live is not the kind of place in which middles can be unambiguously excluded.

Self-confidence is the result of taking risks

couldn't go home, she couldn't go to a friend. Getting cash and checking into a hotel would take care of the immediate problem, but not the long-term one. Ultimately, she needed to get out of town, to get as far out of Atlanta as she possibly could at the moment. Her brow furrowed. But where could she possibly— Suddenly a phrase emblazoned on a nearby awning snagged her attention. Are you ready for the time of your

Still, agreeing to an adventure and getting involved with Lou were two entirely different things. He only hoped that she understood

Tenemos una necesidad morbosa de seguridad