Quotes About Uncertainty

vaciló, porque con los nervios se le

Una vita tranquilla e sicura non è materiale adatto alla scrittura.[...] Ho vissuto in un mare in tempesta, con onde che mi portavano sulla cresta e poi mi facevano precipitare nel vuoto [...] Ora navigo alla deriva, giorno dopo giorno, contenta del semplice fatto di galleggiare finché è possibile.

It makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

Fear? Yes, there was fear, but also uncertainty, emotional dependence, force of habit, and the rule of silence that impeded me from talking about what was happening; I isolated myself.

John Lennon said that life is what happens when we are busy making other plans.

Estos devaneos son inútiles. La vida se hace caminando sin mapa y no hay forma de volver atrás.

Incapaz de seguir cargando solo con la incertidumbre, el desaliento y los súbitos arranques de esperanza del amor callado, Miller finalmente le había confesado a Pedro Alarcón que estaba enamorado.

Igual que en el momento de venir al mundo, al morir tenemos miedo de lo desconocido. Pero el miedo es algo interior que no tiene nada que ver con la realidad. Morir es como nacer: sólo un cambio

been able to plan his future with the irrational confidence of someone who hasn't really suffered. He's

Ese día de verano, 4 de agosto de 1939, en Burdeos, quedaría para siempre en la memoria de Víctor Dalmau, Roser Bruguera y otros dos mil y tantos españoles que partían a ese país larguirucho de América del Sur, aferrado a las montañas para no caerse al mar, del que nada sabían.

You say you're a coward, but it takes courage to say good-bye to everything and cross a threshold without any idea where it leads.

It's true that I feel content and curious, but sometimes I'm also frightened. Waiting on the Other Side may be total desolation, eternal wandering of the sidereal plane calling out for help over and over. No. It won't be like that. There will be light, a lot of light. My moments of uncertainty are very brief. Life pulls me back in and it's hard for me to leave it behind.

nada enfría tanto como la amenaza de un embarazo inoportuno.

He vivido en un mar tormentoso, con olas que me elevan y luego me precipitan al vacío. Tan fuerte ha sido ese oleaje que antes, cuando todo iba bien, en vez de relajarme en la paz del momento, me preparaba para la caída violenta, que creía inevitable. Ya no es así. Ahora navego a la deriva, día a día, contenta con el solo hecho de flotar mientras se pueda.

Había aceptado que sabía muy poco y controlaba mucho menos, pero esa incertidumbre ya no lo asustaba.

I didn't know what to do in my happy state. I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.

That morning we thanked the men who had helped bury Saidu. You will always know where he is laid, one of the men said. I nodded in agreement, but I know that the chances of coming back to the village were slim, as we had no control over our future. We know only how to survive.

It was a night filled with dreams of what was to come. Dreams were still possible here even though the paths to attain them weren't necessarily the best ones. But who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn't know.

Now the red caps scanned the crowd for whoever might be eyeing them displeasingly. And yet if you turned away, this might also be interpreted as a sign of disrespect. It was hard to know how, or where, to look. No one with eyes, in other words, was safe

You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.

When inflation begins to rise, that's a situation we know how to deal with. When the economy is not doing well, and we're stuck at zero, that's one we don't know so much about - or we know about it that it's bad.

Whenever you're at a poker table - and you're betting all of your chips - you're worried, you're scared. Is it the right play? Have I thought through all the angles? That's what stinks about life and business in general. If I had to calculate 100% certainty on every deal I did, I literally would do zero deals.

I bet on a lot of stuff that's low-priced, and most of it's going to go back down to zero. But some of it's going to go up.