Quotes About Uncertainty

All that caring about what happens next.' He waited. 'Now nothing happens next.

We think velocity is new, change is new, and this vast tumult and wave of fear is new. And we are wrong. There has never been firm ground for our lives and our only balm has been a forgetfulness of the changes we have endured.

Russell said something in Sicilian about stormy weather conditions that roughly translates into "You never can tell how things are going to work out. The weather's in God's hands." I

I have lost all faith in the steadfastness of human resolves.

All unaware, and in a manner which I had no power to explain, I was pushed from my immoveable and lofty station, and cast upon a sea of troubles.

Something whispered that the happiness we at present enjoyed was set on mutable foundations. Death must happen to all.

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

The worst things always happen at night, and oftener than one would think on stormy nights. ("The Compensation House")

grave. 'I don't know,' Akim replied,

You don't really want to crash down the whole universe just to satisfy your situational unease or your incapacity to see the whole picture, do you? You don't want a life based on your failure to understand life, right?

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

"In case anything turned up," which was his [Mr. Micawber's] favorite expression.

Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do we know wot lays afore us!

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Gentlemen," returned Mr. Micawber, "do with me as you will! I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants- I beg your pardon; I should have said the elements.

and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?

I'm a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants

The Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the horses; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were not fit for the journey.

Don't let your sober face elate you, however; you don't know what it may come to

large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.

You comfort me so much! I am so ignorant. Am I to kiss you now? Is the moment come?