Emotional Uncertainty Quotes

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'

I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.

We see that hyperactivity and reward areas are important when the bubble's rising. People getting caught up in it. We also see areas involving mentalizing, which means thinking about other people: Who's buying? Who's selling? Do they know something? We see emotional areas before the crash that indicate a sense of uncertainty or dread.

Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?

The berries. I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit. If I held them out to save Peeta because I knew I would be shunned if I came back without him, then I am despicable. If I held them out because I loved him, I am still self-centered, although forgivable. But if I held them out to defy the capitol, I am someone of worth. The trouble is, I don't know exactly what was going on inside me at that moment.

No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.

I'm not sure if my parents had me because they loved me, or because they wanted someone to watch their other children.

There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn thirty and we're not 'ready?' You don't feel entirely settled in any aspect of your life, even if you are on paper.

I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.

But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.

One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

Do you love me? What? Do you? I love you. I don't know if I trust you. Maybe you shouldn't do either. Maybe I'm the one who should decide!

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

One of the most overwhelming things about dating is imagining going on an entire dinner date for an evening with someone you don't even know you have chemistry with yet.

I have back-and-forth feelings about everything a lot - it's not limited to my albums.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.

With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.