Quotes About Uncertainty

Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.

The world is full of whiners. But the fact is, nothing comes with a guarantee. They say as soon as you're born, you're dying, and everything in between is a struggle just to stay sane. And once you're out here in the wide-open world... you're on your own.

You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you, but if you're a good navigator, at least you'll know where you were when you died. (In The Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Reverte)

There are all kinds of life, and sometimes the other side of the hill looks greener. What's hardest for me is not knowing what living like this will ever come to.

His words were absorbed by the sand and blown by the wind, and there was no way of knowing how far they reached.

speranÅ£ele aveau s? moar? otr?vite de îndoielile lui.

Then, suddenly, as if the floor of time had slipped away...

When one is advised that something is black and white at the same time, it would be better to have no advice at all.

I deliberately let him stew in uncertainty, adding now and then an ill-tempered thrust. I didn't bear him any personal grudge. I was doubtless only trying to take my revenge against the convention of faces.

my hopes changed into a heap of shapeless rags, like seaweed pulled out of the water.

I do not really understand. What was happening inside you? I did not have a clue.

To the left of the rubber boots in the front lie the corpse of the mask and the button. I leave it all up to you. I shall have returned home a step ahead of you. I pray with all my heart that you will come back with your usual expression, as if nothing has happened.…

as far as tomorrow is concerned, even the weather report isn't very reliable, you know.

If you could know what was going to happen tomorrow so easily, there wouldn't be much use for fortunetellers, would there?

I could make nothing of the terribly vague answers I got, which I could believe or doubt as I liked.

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

There was no way to actually confirm that his body existed as a body. His cognitive abilities may have convinced him that it did, but there was always the possibility that reality was empty.

The people I knew, even the people I loved, did not always get things right, and they accumulated acts and omissions that lessened their sense of sureness.

Unsichere Fragen und ungeeignetster Augenblick, sie zu stellen!

He had probably been thrown out of a wine shop, and it hadn't quite dawned on him yet.

It was suitably like limbo to depress the spirits of an ordinary man, let alone one with Alec's problems.

It's one way or another, Summer. For me, it's black and white. You're either in the friend zone or the lover zone. And with you…Gosh, Summer, you're in my danger zone. My rip-my-heart-out and change-me-forever zone. I have to tread lightly with you. Because if I don't, I may never be able to find my way back.

I didn't want to fight with him. And yet I could not promise him what I most wanted to give - my love, the promise that I would stay with him in the Winter Court, that I would throw caution aside and be with him.

We live by our labors from one harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to feed ourselves and our children, and if bad times are prolonged we know we must see the weak surrender their lives and this fact, too, is within our experience. In our lives there is no margin for misfortune.