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Quotes about Uncertainty

I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.
— William Faulkner
only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while...
— William Faulkner
thinking remembering how his uncle had said that all man had was time, all that stood between him and the death he feared and abhorred was time yet he spent half of it inventing ways of getting the other half past:
— William Faulkner
She is not listening. If she could hear words like that she would not be getting down from this wagon, with that belly and that fan and that little bundle, alone, bound for a place she never saw before and hunting for a man she ain't going to ever see again and that she has already seen one time too many as it is.
— William Faulkner
I feel better! I feel! I feel!" until he quit that too and said quietly, looking at the familiar wall, the familiar twin door through which he was about to pass, with tragic and passive clairvoyance: "Something is going to happen to me.
— William Faulkner
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— William Faulkner
I'm frightened. Of us.
— William Golding
We don't know much about our current selves, do we?
— William Golding
the rhetorical formulas of objurgation with which I was to begin a page of inquiries of you: whether you were dead
— William James
It seems to me there are times when you have to act and times when you have to wait, but the hardest times are those when you want to do one but you have to do the other and you're not sure which is the best.
— Chris Fabry
It's funny how aimless a person can feel at times, even when they know God is in control.
— Chris Fabry
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
— Henry David Thoreau