Quotes About Uncertainty

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

God put us on this carnival ride, We close our eyes not knowing were it will take us next

I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.

She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.

We thought we knew everything about him. But that's not how life is. When all's said and done, we can never truly know one another.

Even terror needs a yardstick, and surely the yardstick for the unknown is the known?

But to close your eyes for the last time on something precious - a hope, a hand reaching out for you - that must be the worst. Even terror needs a yardstick, and surely the yardstick for the unknown is the known?

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

there is no order in the world around us, that we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

That's the problem with life. Things seldom stay the same do they? And the future rarely turns out quite the way we expect.

I hate this case,' stated Gibbons unequivocally. 'I don't know what really happened, I shall probably never know what really happened, and I shall still be a detective sergeant when I'm sixty.

There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own.

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are! How less what we may be! The eternal surge Of time and tide rolls on, and bears afar Our bubbles; as the old burst, new emerge, Lash'd from the foam of ages; while the graves Of Empires heave but like some passing waves.

I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Destiny is always dark.

Trust not one night's ice.

Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soulWhen hot for certainties in this our life!

The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.