I sang to feel certainty in being alive.
Yet I feel no assurances, no certainty that what I have decided is the best.
For the more I read and am told about what happened in France and why, the more I feel suspicious of liberal certainties too: the arguments about whether the Hebdo cartoons are racist or not, whether free speech is conditional or not.
I did not verify the idea; I should not have had the time, as, upon taking my seat in the omnibus, I went on with the conversation already commenced, but I felt a perfect certainty".
Again I felt a paranoiac certainty that in telling his tale Sigismund Blondy had enlisted me in a theatrical invention — cast me in a role — for the benefit of an unknown audience, perhaps only himself.
Snuggled between my mum and dad I feel completely safe, enveloped in the certainty that whatever demons dwell in my dreams they cannot harm me because Mum and Dad are at my side.
AG: Even if I acquiesce that the evidence favours atheism, I feel a visceral reluctance to embrace the certainty of atheism, even with your more flexible definition of certainty.
"I feel there is quite a lot of certainty around the determining features of those three [employment] statuses are already," he added.
I feel that most people want to have some certainty about where they're heading and where the organization is heading.
Yet he isn't simply saying, "I feel at peace" or "I have an inner certainty that passes understanding".
