Quotes About Uncertainty

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

For a long time, I had this constant feeling that I just wanted to look behind me. The hairs on my neck were standing up all the time, I didn't know where was safe.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Getting on stage doing standup anytime is hard. You never know what you're going to say. You live and die on your next word.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

I am sometimes more doubt than man.

Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.

Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there's so much worth saving.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Men fear to lose as much as they hope to gain.

There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.