Quotes About Uncertainty

Every age is an unknown country.

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

It's such a thrilling part about being in a relationship at a young age, and all your feelings are apocalyptic, all your emotions are so huge.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

he sees, one cannot know enough to trust. To trust is simply to give oneself; the giving is for the future, for which there is no evidence.

Faith puts you out on a wide river in a little boat, in the fog, in the dark.

Tell you," he said, "there ain't a way in this world to know what a human creature is going to do next.

If I could have found in my mind a plain and simple way to be right, that would have been something. I would have been changed in another way, and my life ever afterward would have been different. But having reached the crisis—the crossroad, so to speak—I failed. I didn't have at all the feeling of being right.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which to go, we have begun our journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

We cannot think about the future, of course, for the future does not exist: the existence of the future is an article of faith.

You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

Se poate întâmpla ca, atunci când nu mai È™tim ce s? facem, s? fi ajuns la adev?rata noastr? munc?, iar când nu mai È™tim pe ce cale s? o lu?m, s? fi început adev?rata noastr? c?l?torie.

And of course Cecelia held some secret doubts about herself; you can't dislike nearly everybody and be quite certain that you have exempted yourself.

We live by the assumption that what's good for us is good for the world. And this is based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what's good for us.

It is a question with me still, and the answer has altogether disappeared from the world.

You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out—perhaps a little at a time." "And how long is that going to take?" "I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps." "That could be a long time." "I will tell you a further mystery," he said "It may take longer.

So we stood there, not knowing either how to stay or how to go, and felt the weight of that failure.

expectations.