Quotes About Uncertainty

What good? None, possibility. One does not await a revolution as one awaits the grocer's van, expecting to be handed packets of sugar and tapioca.

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

Because I do not hope to turn againBecause I do not hopeBecause I do not hope to turn.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.

Non-belief and skepticism go hand and hand; always seeking, but never finding the truth.

Human understanding is limited—and the things that metaphysics seeks to know, we can never know.

I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take.

Good or bad, it's the little surprises that keep life interesting.

Love and danger go hand in hand.

In today's ambiguous world, character means despotism, tyranny, absolute intolerance. At last it is time to admire a lack of character, inner weakness. Our epoch is that of noble doubts, blessed uncertainty, sacred hypersensitivity, divine wishy-washiness.

my gray zone is starting to include poetry here white is not absolute white black is not absolute black the edges of these non-colors adjoin

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

I enter a time of much peril, and am more likely to fail and die than succeed and live." "Those who succeed and those who fail are both destined to die.

What will happen will happen, whether you know of it or not. Believe me, it is not always better to know." "Knowing must be better," Shigeru said. "Then no one can take you by surprise." "Someone will always take you by surprise, because no matter how much you know, you can never know everything.

In fact, although she had no idea where to go or what kind of work to do, she felt compelled even before considering such matters to throw herself into action. Telling the union man Yamada (or Sasaki) that she wanted to work and had to do it came from an idea that surprised even Yasuko.

What shall I do with this ageing me? Neither floating nor sinking, I drift, tossed by the waves of years.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.

Acting is the most insecure of all the trades, the most risky. In their professional lifetime most actors rehearse longer than they play, spend more time traipsing from office to office in search of jobs than they rehearse and play combined.

Here a hint, there a clue, and ever more unanswered questions.

Life is full of risks...that first step of faith was often taken neck-deep in fear.