Uncertainty
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- Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
- Madness is the result not of uncertainty, but of certainty.
- I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. It's mostly a question of editing. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell.
- A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships are built.
- I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
- Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What’s closer to nature’s heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed?
- Is there anyone out there? Or am I all alone? It wouldn’t make a difference; still, I don’t wanna know.
- Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
- Gam zu l’tova. This too is for the good.
- If you don't know what you're living for, you haven't yet lived.
- Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
- Always lists to be made, as if writing items in neat vertical rows might stave off randomness and chaos.