Quotes About Uncertainty

Feito febre, baixava às vezes nele aquela sensação de que nada daria jamais certo, que todos os esforços seriam para sempre inúteis, e coisa nenhuma de alguma forma se modificaria.

Deve haver alguma espécie de sentido ou o que virá depois?

Você não grita nem acorda. Não há terror, mesmo sendo aterrorizante: é assim que é. E pior ainda, não se trata de um sonho. Começa a amanhecer. Ou a anoitecer. Ninguém sabe quando passa o trem. Nem para onde vai. E não se leva nada. Isso é tudo que sabemos.

Zézim, ninguém te ensinará os caminhos. Ninguém me ensinará os caminhos. Ninguém nunca me ensinou caminho nenhum, nem a você, suspeito. Avanço às cegas. Não há caminhos a serem ensinados, nem aprendidos. Na verdade, não há caminhos.

I think that I also don't know what possibility and obligation are, but I know very clearly what need is. Desire? … Desire, we make up.

this feeling of losing control

Knowledge work exchanges this clarity for ambiguity. It can be hard to define exactly what a given knowledge worker does and how it differs from another

This practice asks you to embrace this well-validated strategy by making time to write a letter to yourself when faced with demanding or uncertain circumstances.

Other interviews in the archive promote this same idea that it's hard to predict in advance what you'll eventually grow to love.

There are certain things a man cannot control.

marks Marcus had originally thought to be left by pitons at that site were therefore made by something else, probably something altogether unconnected to our case).

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

A position I couldn't help but notice was ambiguous at best.

I had absolutely no idea what I was about to face. I only knew that, for the first time in my life, I would be all alone.

The calm before the storm that might carry us all before it.

Some things are best kept to yourself. Particularly when you're not sure whether or not other people will approve, but you're pretty sure they won't.

Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's out of your control and it's awesome — and it's not a career path.

He'd read somewhere that after you had a child it was like living the rest of your life with a loaded pistol at your temple. And there was some truth to that. The fear was always present, lurking.

Volqué el arca en la bolsa, la despensa en la alforja y el lastre de los malos pensamientos en el fondo del pozo y, aprovechándome de la noche como un ladrón, cogí el portante, enfilé la carretera y comencé a caminar —sin saber demasiado a dónde ir— campo adelante y tan seguido que, cuando amaneció y el cansancio que notaba en los huesos ya era mucho, quedaba el pueblo, cuando menos, tres leguas a mis espaldas.

Flota en el aire como un pesar que se va clavando en los corazones. Los corazones no duelen y pueden sufrir, hora tras hora, hasta toda una vida, sin que nadie sepamos nunca, demasiado a ciencia cierta, qué es lo que pasa.

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