Quotes About Uncertainty

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

Life is a long march, an endless column of souls moving forward through surrounding dark. In that crowd nobody knows where they're going, but there is plenty of talk, and the fools, some called philosophers, pretend to understand.

Certainty is the lot of those who do not ask questions.

Social laws acted and people were maimed, damaged, robbed, and strangled by forces they could not even glimpse. People were driven to sickness, to desperation, to loneliness and fear and remorse. Shaken by tears and longing, in a world they fundamentally failed to fathom, they nonetheless carried on. There was

We constantly lived in the paradox of precariousness. The money was never there when you needed it, and it was always on time.

Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell dont understand everything.

Even worse, however, was that the soldiers hardly knew whom they were fighting, and not only because distinguishing resistance fighters from the native civilians was next to impossible.

I know absolutely nothing about where I'm going. I'm fine with that. I'm happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn't really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It's all blank pages waiting to be written on. It's all about going forward. It's all about uncertainty and possibilities.

Just as many questions might be started for debate among people sitting up at night as to the kind of thing that sunshine is, and then the simple appearing of it in all its beauty would render any verbal description superfluous, so every calculation that tries to arrive conjecturally at the future state will be reduced to nothingness by the object of our hopes, when it comes upon us.

Maybe she loved me, maybe not – who knows? Not even the gods can see into a human heart – it's that dark.

If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about any one thing about yourself, life, the future, or anything else, what would you want to know, and why?

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

Sometimes I really do wonder if everything is just random and pointless, whether there's any meaning to anything in this life.

Hope is tricky, slippery; it's a door opening and then slamming in your face. The

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.

Was that you or the duck?

My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.

You know, I would buy you a parachute if I thought it wouldn't open.

It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

Love is always dangerous. To love is to hope you'll win it all while running the risk that you could lose it all. And sometimes it's also about accepting that there's a risk that you'll love more than you are loved.

Aimer, c'est toujours dangereux, Martin ! Aimer, c'est espérer tout gagner en risquant de tout perdre, et c'est aussi parfois accepter de prendre le risque d'être moins aimé que l'on n'aime. - Eh bien tu vois, dit-il en se levant de table, ce risque, je crois que je ne suis plus prêt à le prendre.

à quoi bon se protéger si notre destin était scellé ? à quoi bon chercher à éviter le pire si le pire ne pouvait être évité ?

Pronto dejará de estar cerca de mí. No lo veré nunca más. No lo oiré nunca más. Yo, como todos aquellos que me han precedido, obtendré al fin la respuesta a la pregunta: ¿existe un lugar al que todos vamos a parar?