Quotes About Uncertainty

Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs.

I've always been a little skittish about death. On certain days I'm okay with it. On other days it's like, "Really? I have to? No, man, not me."

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out. And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all went to class, I suspected he felt the same way.

In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.

A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

There's no man on this earth can even be assured he'll have a next day.

Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.