Quotes About Uncertainty

The move to separate from the EU is not a step backward onto firm ground, but a leap into the unknown.

Lacking a functional state that assured basic social goods taken for granted elsewhere—education, pensions, health care, transport, parental leave, vacations—Americans could be overwhelmed by each day, and lose a sense of the future.

If you want to make God smile, tell him your plans

Uncertainty can be the most difficult and frightening of mental states. If you're always wondering which way to go, you might freeze up and not go anywhere. If you're afraid you can't do something, you might not even try.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

I am always afraid of your something shall be done.

Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

La mobilità sociale ha aperto a tutti la possibilità di aspirare a qualsiasi cosa, ma con ciò nessuno è più "predestinato" a nulla. È forse per questo che la gente è sempre più disorientata e incerta sul senso della propria vita.

Il futuro è una scatola vuota in cui metti tutte le tue illusioni.

Affascinato, come sono sempre stato, dalla ricca certezza del passato, e confuso dall'incertezza del futuro con le sue troppe possibilità, avevo preso il presente solo come materiale di cui godere una volta che fosse diventato passato. E così, il presente m'era sempre sfuggito.

Watching as Boris's last chips were scooped away, Will thought it was probably because he had always had an innate sense of how much easier it was to lose than win.

The room fell silent. I frankly didn't know what I was going to do to help Eduardo, but I had the sense that he was right- no one else could help him, and without help, all that he'd done would crumble. Plus, I like being called his only hope. I felt like Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Go into everything thinking it may be temporary.

Todavía no sabía lo que era el amor ni si estaba enamorado de ella, pero cada vez que pensaba en ella sentía algo que no sentía salvo cuando lo sentía... No sabía por qué, ni qué significaba todo eso, ni qué debía hacer al respecto. Pero tratar de no sentirlo, tratar de que desapareciera, ahora le parecía algo profundamente equivocado.

We were not somewhere between success and failure; we were elsewhere.

ghost44: Guess you don't think I'm Jessica Keen anymore. johnnyrotten: No. Definitely not. ghost44: What makes you so sure? johnnyrotten: Because the only time I don't get that empty feeling is when I'm messaging you.

Living in the present doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't plan ahead. You need to have an intention in mind when you embark on something, but the thing to do is make plans and then wait to see what happens. There are no guarantees.

Once we are born, only two things are certain. One is that we will die and the other that we will experience change.

ce qui convainc de la nécessité de la vie future, ce ne sont pas les raisonnements mais ceci : tu marches dans la vie la main dans la main avec un homme, et tout à coup, cet homme disparaît là-bas dans le néant, et toi tu restes devant cet abîme et tu y plonges ton regard (Guerre et Paix, livre deuxième, 2ième partie, ch. XII)

All my life I have entirely missed the point; and the turning, as I also have no sense of direction. This long period of uncertainty in the twilight land of the fuddled (it is now more than sixty years) has taken its toll.

But we can't escape into the future like we can escape into the past. So those of us who are not certain of things, and there are an awful lot of us, often rush back to the past. And each one has a particular past he prefers to the present. Sometimes I feel that any past is preferable to the present.

All my life I have felt myself to be on the edge of things. All my life I have suffered from bad dreams. All my life I have had difficulty in knowing whether I am awake or in a nightmare.

Do you believe in God?' Julie asked. 'No. But I'm old enough to recognize that we simply have no idea what lies beyond the boundaries of our knowledge and to take some comfort from that ignorance.