Quotes About Uncertainty

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.

With a novel, there is no hurrying it. You're constantly walking into the unknown.

In 'Hollow City,' I'm taking all the characters out of the lives they've been secure in for years and plunging them into the unknown. That's how you really get to know them.

Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.

The sheer number of facts that are unknown about what happened when Malaysia 370 disappeared is quite staggering.

We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.

People are scared of the unknown.

The unknown is always scary.

No one in a normal walk of life flies into a new city unknown and unemployed and ends up doing their job on national television a few days later. I love the game, but it's crazy sometimes.

The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

Life is a very scary thing because it's unknown. Anything can happen anytime, and that is terrifying for all of us: to not to be in control.

I like the unknown.

A Trump presidency will plunge the United States into an era of unknowns that has little parallel in the nation's 240-year history.

That's always been my interest - things of the unknown.

I hate the unknown.

Im not an adrenaline junkie, but the unknown of football and it being on a knife edge every week, I love it.

By definition, outbreaks are quickly evolving situations. Outbreaks with novel diseases bring even more unknowns.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it.

I feel like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, which is both settling and terrifying. The roller coaster is going, and there is no jumping off at this point unless I just go nuclear. It's a really interesting part of the whole journey.

I've known the anxiety of being completely lost, flying at night. It can be extreme. You're travelling at close to five hundred miles an hour, and every minute that goes by takes you further into being lost unless you get help from ground radar somewhere or somehow figure out the error.

People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a sure thing.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.