Quotes About Uncertainty

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. —Dostoevsky

Just when we think we've figured things out, the universe throws us a curveball. —Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy

We don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. —Robert Burns

She said that my good qualities were my bad qualities -- this I have come to realize is true of everyone. On the one hand, I was game, eager and perfectly ready to see what was in front of me. On the other hand, I had no sense of direction or destiny.

Her work had been going so well and now it was all going to end.

It probably doesn't mean anything.

Six years and my parents are still dead, and I still feel like I'm rotting away in purgatory, waiting for a killer to determine my fate.

parenting always involves this balance between what you know, what you guess, what you fear, and what you imagine.

She wasn't sure that parenting ever qualified as brave. Or maybe it always did. Because it's not like you got a choice.

You never have enough information. You don't get to see the future. And if you screw up, if with your incomplete, contradictory information you make the wrong call, well, nothing less than your child's entire future and happiness is at stake. It's impossible. It's heartbreaking. It's maddening. But there's no alternative.

It was like when your car spins out on an icy road, and your senses turn up so high that time seems to slow because you notice everything, and you just sit in your spinning car waiting, waiting to see if you're, going to die. He couldn't loos at her because every sense and every fraction of a moment and every atom of his body was being in love with her. It was weird.

So Grumwald felt his way was, if not firmly paved, at least densely pebbled, and that was as good a start as one could wish for.

It was like when your car spins out on an icy road, and your senses turn up so high that time seems to slow because you notice everything, and you just sit in your spinning car waiting, waiting to see if you're going to die. He couldn't look at her because every sense and every fraction of a moment and every atom of his body was being in love with her. It was weird.

tiny human whose fate and future is entirely in your hands, who trusts you to know what's good and right and then to be able to make that happen. You never have enough information. You don't get to see the future. And if you screw up, if with your incomplete, contradictory information you make the wrong call, well, nothing less

Fear, without potential mitigating

solutions, can be very volatile.

What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist.

how impossible it is to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option you couldn't even imagine.

What a maddening life it is, to be committed to a way of living while also remaining open to all possibilities.

The second gift––patience––helps us deal with not knowing how long this is going to last.

We have to expect the unexpected and keep going, even without a map or direction.

Out here on the water, it's a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether.

Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know.