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  1. David Mitchell _ Slade House

    Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger's cat inside a box you can never ever open.
    book-quotehopepainloss

  2. Alain de Botton _ Status Anxiety

    The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
    book-quoteothersvalueuncertainty

  3. Patrick McGrath _ Asylum

    these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity.
    book-quoteloveuncertainty

  4. Sherwood Smith _ Firebirds: An Anthology of

    When in doubt, be ridiculous."
    book-quotedecisionuncertaintyfast-thinking

  5. Eoin Colfer _ Artemis Fowl

    I don't know why it is, Captain Short, but whenever you start agreeing with me, I get decidedly nervous.
    book-quotehumoruncertaintynervous

  6. Aberjhani _ Splendid Literarium: A

    On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.
    book-quotewarfeartrust

  7. Terry Pratchett _ The Fifth Elephant

    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 plunged into the cauldron below a waterfall with a sharp piece of metal attached to his body.GOOD MORNING.Vimes blinked. A tall dark robed figure was now sitting in the boat.'Are you Death?'IT'S THE SCYTHE, ISN'T IT? PEOPLE ALWAYS NOTICE THE SCYTHE.'I'm going to die?'POSSIBLY.'Possibly? You turn up when people are possibly going to die?'OH, YES. IT'S QUITE THE NEW THING. IT'S BECAUSE OF THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE.'What's that?'I'M NOT SURE.'That's very helpful."
    book-quoteuncertainty

  8. Alan Lightman _ Einstein's Dreams

    Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
    book-quoteuncertaintychancecommitment

  9. Terry Pratchett _ The Fifth Elephant

    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 plunged into the cauldron below a waterfall with a sharp piece of metal attached to his body.GOOD MORNING.Vimes blinked. A tall dark robed figure was now sitting in the boat.'Are you Death?'IT'S THE SCYTHE, ISN'T IT? PEOPLE ALWAYS NOTICE THE SCYTHE.'I'm going to die?'POSSIBLY.'Possibly? You turn up when people are possibly going to die?'OH, YES. IT'S QUITE THE NEW THING. IT'S BECAUSE OF THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE.'What's that?'I'M NOT SURE.'That's very helpful.
    book-quoteuncertainty

  10. Tamora Pierce _ Bloodhound

    I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on"Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump.
    book-quotehumorjokeuncertainty

  11. Hermann Hesse _ Siddhartha

    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.
    book-quotelifeunityuncertainty

  12. Bret Easton Ellis _ The Informers

    Looking at Tim, one cannot help feeling great waves of uncertainty, an absence of aim, of purpose, as if he is a person who simply doesn't matter.
    book-quotepurposeuncertaintyennui
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