Quotes About Uncertainty

What about kids?" "Well, a child is like a third, smaller ball that appears as part of the big one. You've no way of knowing what color it will be.

Natural movement is riskier," he acknowledged, "but life is risky and music is an element of life, so it is risky, too!

The past is certain, the future obscure.

But tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun

There is nothing in the world that we can count on, even that we will wake up is an assumption

But that is the strange thing about the future. Nothing ages faster than yesterday's dreams of tomorrow.

Sopping, and with no sign of stopping, either- then a breather. Warm again, storm again- what is the norm, again? It's fine, it's not, it's suddenly hot: Boom, crash, lightning flash!

Where's jazz going? I don't know. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

She had longed for adventure, and now that it was happening to her, she was not sure how she felt about it.

Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.

security—the feeling that nothing could change seriously for the worse, and that the life that you had was invulnerable—was illusory and even dangerous.

She looked into her glass and saw a prettier Carrie than she had seen before; she looked into her mind, a mirror prepared of her own and the world's opinions, and saw a worse. Between these two images she wavered, hesitating which to believe.

all the while I was thinking that I was the only man who did not know what I was about, and that all the others did—whereas, as I found out later, pretty much everybody else was as much in the dark as I was.

Nothing is always absolutely so

You can't be 100 per cent certain of anything.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

In the morning consider that you may not live till evening, and when evening comes do not dare to promise yourself the dawn.

If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death. It were better for thee to watch against sin, than to fly from death. If to-day thou art not ready, how shalt thou be ready to-morrow? To-morrow is an uncertain day; and how knowest thou that thou shalt have a to-morrow?

Hence it is written (Wis. 9:14): "The thoughts of mortal men are fearful, and our counsels uncertain." Thus man needs to be guarded by the angels. Reply

And who are you?" cried one agape, Shuddering in the gloaming light. "I know not" said the second Shape, "I only died last night.

Then the ship gave sudden lurches that made it a matter of uncertainty whether one was going to put his fork in his mouth or into his eye.

I did not know it then, but my life was about to take a sharp turn. Strange and stranger (all carefully scientific of course) was about to become as common as air.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.