You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was delu...
When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply understand the choices that were taken, the roads that were walked, and that there are no guarantees to an...
(n.) The quality or state of being uncertain.
(n.) That which is uncertain; something unknown.
These are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity.
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error, Leto explained. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.
And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at all.
And so, it is always the case that the past is irreparably land-locked, and the future has yet to land. And here we are, living out our lives on the precariously thin line which separates the two.
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
Death is certain. Life is always changing, like a puff of wind in the air, or a wave in the sea, or even a thought in the mind.
Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's g...
He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he was beset with uncertainty; in fact he had no idea what was being asked of him
He took his hands off the oars and pulled in the mooring rope. If I make a couple of loops, he thought, I can strap the axe on to my back.He had a mental picture of what could happen to a man who plun...