Certainty Quotes

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Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she wonâ€™t suffer the way… — Paulo Coelho
We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice… — Milan Kundera
What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death. — Stephen R. Lawhead
I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium,… — Salvador Dali
A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty, "This is not… — A. S. Byatt
I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression,… — Stephane Mallarme
It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so… — Carl Jung
as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled… — Anne Fortier
There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of… — John Banville
Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have found out. But… — Richelle Mead
My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But… — Haruki Murakami
It wasn't about wanting to die or having nothing left to live for; it was about letting go. You live your life doing what you're… — Kelley Armstrong
If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass… — Justina Chen
I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone else can be. And I've made you cry; and… — Kristin Cashore
We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die. — Georges Bataille
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter… — Hermann Hesse
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled… — Bertrand Russell
There are few times when we know with absolute certainty we are going to do something for the last time. Life has a way of… — Megan Hart
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what… — Albert Camus
But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of… — Lisa Kleypas

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