Quotes About Uncertainty

Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder.

La muerte es tan... definitiva! Mientras que la vida está llena de posibilidades

Between the plan and the fulfillment lies always the hazard: heartbeat flutters, knife flashes, horse stumbles, cancer grows, more subtle foes invade

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

Still ... in this world only winter is certain.

I know nothing, Ygritte, he [Jon Snow] thought, and perhaps I never will.

Because it will not last," Catelyn answered, sadly. "Because they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.

Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman's hair. Who knighted me, old friend? What were my favorite foods? It all fades. Sometimes I think I was born on the bloody grass in that grove of ash, with the taste of fire in my mouth and a hole in my chest. Are you my mother, Thoros?

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings.

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?

Our maester chuckled at me and told us that Prince Rhaegar was certain to defeat this rebel. That was when Stark said, 'In this world only winter is certain. We may lose our heads, it's true . . . but what if we should prevail?' My father sent him on his way with his head still on his shoulders. 'If you lose,' he told Lord Eddard, 'you were never here.'" "No more than I was," said Davos Seaworth.

My mother raised me to be bold. If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had." "If you do go, the rest of your life may be too short for wondering. - Asha & Rodrick

I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys) 'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices.

Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.

None of us is ever ready

Every battle is a gamble, Snow. The man who does nothing also takes a risk.

I have never forgotten, and I can't imagine you have, and I've thought of it over the years. It was so good, when it was good, I kept thinking. How could it go wrong?

Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those.

The man who does nothing also takes a risk.

Death should hold no fear for a man as old as me, but it does. Isn't that silly? It is always dark where I am, so why should I fear the darkness? Yet I cannot help but wonder what will follow, when the last warmth leaves my body.