Quotes About Uncertainty

The man's words somehow unflexed him in time and space. He felt momentarily unreal, as if his very existence depended on the next words this stranger would utter. He had to make a noise, take some action, to dispell the terrifying sensation.

Unaware of the discussion of his fate, Valraven Palindrake VI was sitting beneath one of the long testle tables, hidden by the tablecloth, in thrall to his uncle, Leonid.

He did not want to believe in ghosts, and he feared his own madness.

All the time, I feel myself changing, pushing against a barrier or resistance, like a creature trying to break out of a shell. When the shell is broken, I will be different, and I have no way of knowing how.

I find myself praying, my son, that you will not be among the casualties that will doubtlessly occur before your soulscaper is ready for whatever you have in mind.

I am always waiting for something, he thought, kept on hold; but for what? What is it that I have forgotten?

I realise, as I stand swaying on the splintered slabs, that I have lost the thread of real life. It is stretching to an infinite thinness. And I am losing the equally fragile thread of sanity; it will not be long.

Well, it has to be said by one of us, so it might as well be me. Can we rescue what we once had?" Daniel forced himself to hold Shem's gaze. He felt cornered, unable to organize his thoughts. "I don't know." He shook his head. "No. We can only move forward.

It felt like when you desire another person, and are unsure whether they return your feelings and then, finally, confessions are made, and communication takes place. You feel light-headed because your trembling hopes have been released.

The ceiling sloped downwards gradually as if teasing him. He kept taking long, measured lungsful of air, sure that every one would be his last, only to find there was time to take another. Then the stone kissed the water, and he had no chance but to descend, feeling blindly with his hands, kicking with his feet.

There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.

There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar

Survival, to my mind, implies a finite probability that without luck and cunning, you will perish.

Indeed, anxiety or angst, as term-coiner Søren Kierkegaard first meant it, is the feeling that matures us, after we take "leaps of faith" into life, into

What's the matter, don't you like surprises?" "I like them if they're pleasant ones, and when they happen suddenly," Holly said. "But not when I have to ponder them for an hour and forty-five minutes.

Everyone was emotionally affected. We developed a fear of the future which was very difficult to overcome. Even though I eventually went into some fairly good jobs, there was still this constant dread: everything would be cut out from under you and you wouldn't know what to do. It would be even harder, because you were older. .

Fear of death is often a justifiable fear of the unknown; of circumstances beyond our personal control which we cannot know and for which we cannot prepare.

Death is coming, and if it wasn't today, it might tomorrow

While life expectancy may be variable, death expectancy remains unchanged.

If you know haw a book is going to end, would you read it in the first place?" Kit asked herself later, as she stood in the bathroom, an electric toothbrush winding its way around her mouth. "Do you stop reading a book because you don't want to watch the characters you like turn out to be unlikable, or the ones with which you identify denied the happy ending you believe they deserve?

I no longer know that story. The narrator is unreliable.

In math, the constant variable stays the same, while the other variables have no fixed value. But in life, as those variables take on more precedence, the value of the constant diminishes.

Eva said, Are you sure that it's my husband, Dr Brian Beaver, she's carrying on with? Only he's not the type. "He's a man, isn't he?" Said Nicola.

I expect the experience will give me a trauma at some stage in the future. I'm all right at the moment, but you never know.