#certain

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 that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#death #falling #featureless #labyrinth #nothing

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two, ↗

— Ron Suskind

#doubt #humility #education

And in life, at least her new life, chances were the best she could hope for. They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, WERE life. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

#chances #life #life

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time. ↗

— Gioachino Rossini

#certainly #first #hear #hearing #i

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#certain #dictionary #find #focused #how

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#brotherly #business #carry #certain #love

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#concern #difficulties #each #every #getting

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them. ↗

— Dan Savage

#corporations #exploited #holidays #i #manufactured

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#barbarity #certain #certain point #civilization #collapse

I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point. ↗

— Len Wein

#certain #certain point #characters #crazy #hate