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1. “A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin’, an’ he got nothing to tell him what’s so an’ what ain’t so. Maybe if he sees somethin’, he don’t know whether it’s right or not. He can’t turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can’t tell. He got nothing to measure by.”
John Steinbeck
Loneliness, Thinking, Uncertainty, Isolation, Reflection, Truth
9. “After a while, it sort of began to rain, which is to say that it was the kind of rain that never comes to a decision about whether it’s actually raining or not. Driving in it, you would never have been certain whether or not to turn on your wipers.” Neil Gaiman Weather, Uncertainty, Metaphor, Perception, Confusion
12. “All through June the writing course had stretched before me like a bright, safe bridge over the dull gulf of summer. Now I saw it totter and dissolve, and a body in a white blouse and green skirt plummet into the gap.” Sylvia Plath Summer Gap, Writing Loss, Bridge Collapse, Uncertainty, Fading Dreams, Summer Escape
Uncertainty Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin’, an’ he got nothing to tell him what’s so an’ what ain’t so. Maybe if he sees somethin’, he don’t know whether it’s right or not. He can’t turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can’t tell. He got nothing to measure by.”
John Steinbeck Loneliness, Thinking, Uncertainty, Isolation, Reflection, Truth
9. “After a while, it sort of began to rain, which is to say that it was the kind of rain that never comes to a decision about whether it’s actually raining or not. Driving in it, you would never have been certain whether or not to turn on your wipers.”
Neil Gaiman Weather, Uncertainty, Metaphor, Perception, Confusion
12. “All through June the writing course had stretched before me like a bright, safe bridge over the dull gulf of summer. Now I saw it totter and dissolve, and a body in a white blouse and green skirt plummet into the gap.”
Sylvia Plath Summer Gap, Writing Loss, Bridge Collapse, Uncertainty, Fading Dreams, Summer Escape
