The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next

Quote by Ursula K LeGuin

Topics: Life Quotes, Possibility Quotes

Comfort was allowed to come to them rare, welcome, unsought: a gift like joy.

Comfort was allowed to come to them rare, welcome, unsought: a gift like joy.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by...

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by...

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the...

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the...

The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant;...

The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant;...

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey...

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey...

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes...

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes...

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a...

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a...

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or...

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or...

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that...

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that...

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that...

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that...

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than...

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than...

But, why, ungrateful, dwell on idle pain?

But, why, ungrateful, dwell on idle pain?

And He gives you of all that you ask Him; and if you count Allah's...

And He gives you of all that you ask Him; and if you count Allah's...

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the...

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the...

Allah does not bless usury, and He causes charitable deeds to prosper, and Allah does...

Allah does not bless usury, and He causes charitable deeds to prosper, and Allah does...

And if We make man taste mercy from Us, then take it off from him,...

And if We make man taste mercy from Us, then take it off from him,...

And they assign to Him a part of His servants; man, to be sure, is...

And they assign to Him a part of His servants; man, to be sure, is...

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do...

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do...

Surely Allah will defend those who believe; surely Allah does not love any one who...

Surely Allah will defend those who believe; surely Allah does not love any one who...