Quotes About Uncertainty

The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled around him, but he could feel how fast he was falling, and he knew what was waiting for him down there. Even in dreams, you could not fall forever. He would wake up in the instant before he hit the ground, he knew. You always woke in the instant before you hit the ground.

Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.

Who are you? We we're king's men when we began, the man told her, but king's men must have a king, and we have none. We were brothers too, but now our brotherhood is broken. I do not know who we are, if truth be told, nor where we might be going. I only know the road is dark. The fires have not shown me what lies at its end.

You cannot know what the light might summon from the darkness.

May," said Dany. That was such a slippery word, may. In any language.

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

He did not know whether he ought to be delighted or terrified. Perhaps a smidge of both." - Tyrion

They always seemed to know everything, but now there is only me, and it seems I know nothing, not even my duty. How can I do my duty if I do not know where it lies?" - Catelyn

If you step in a nest of snakes, does it matter which one bites you first?

This is an evil dream, she thought. But if she were dreaming, why did it hurt so much? She tried to ask the shadows, but they did not answer. Perhaps they did not hear her. Perhaps they were not real.

Lo peor no ha pasado. Lo peor no ha hecho más que empezar, y no hay final feliz.

Terror filled her. She could not go back and she was afraid to stay here, but how could she go on?" - Dany

The gardener digs a hole in the ground and throws in a seed and waters it and he hopes something comes up. Now, he knows generally what's going to come up. He knows whether he planted an acorn for an oak tree or a tomato plant to get some tomatoes for the summer. But there's a lot of details he doesn't know. It may not grow at all. It may grow a little and then die. It may go wild. A chipmunk may eat it during the night. You don't know.

The path of faith was a crooked one.

racing down the kingsroad, as if to outrun his doubts.

If you step in a nest of snakes, does it matter who bites you first?

I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

Tyrion wondered whether this was the last sunrise he would ever see … and whether wondering was a mark of cowardice.

Death is so final, whereas life is full of possibilities'' - Tyrion Lannister

If I look back, I am lost.

We are walking on a bridge of ice with an abyss on either side.

Not all risks lead to ruin.

Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.

No more than he knew that the Beggar King would die young, or that Khal Drogo would follow him into the grave. Very little of what the fat man has anticipated has come to pass.