In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.
Alan MooreStichwörter: psychology uncertainty delusion angst conservatism anxiety
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Alice HoffmanStichwörter: love uncertainty weather
Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.
Gennifer CholdenkoStichwörter: optimism live-in-the-moment possibility uncertainty
Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.
Hermann HesseStichwörter: life uncertainty unity siddhartha hesse
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He fell silent. For several moments they all did, and the quiet had the feel of a deliberate thing. Then Eddie said, "All right, we're back together again. What the hell do we do next?
Stephen KingStichwörter: uncertainty reunion
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
Anne RiceStichwörter: knowledge questions courage risk daring uncertainty seeking asking
Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?
Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-AdamStichwörter: creativity uncertainty
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.
Beryl MarkhamStichwörter: past future roots home moving-on memory uncertainty homelessness memories anchoring attachment belonging leaving reminiscence
As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.
Pema ChödrönStichwörter: buddhism uncertainty
What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: words writing uncertainty expressions
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