Quotes About Uncertainty

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

We live in an age when the mice are hunting the cats...nobody knows who are the mice and who the cats.

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

We are in a great night of the world. The thing is to know if we shall wake up to-morrow. We have only one succor we know of what the night is made. But shall we be able to impart our lucid faith, seeing that the heralds of warning are everywhere few, and that the greatest victims hate the only ideal which is not one, and call it utopian?

Ah, my poor child, how far gone you are in your blindness! Why did you have me summoned?" "I had hopes, I had hopes." "Hopes? Hopes of what?" "I do not know. The things we hope for are always the things we do not know.

Andiamo avanti, non sappiamo dove. Non sappiamo niente, tranne che il cielo e la terra stanno per confondersi nel medesimo abisso.

You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey

Et mi-rêvant, je ne sais guère Si c'est moi qui t'écris, ou toi…

Then, by dint of seeing the days born in the morning and miscarrying in the evening, I became afraid to die, and this fear was my first passion.

Yo no sé lo que soy, ni adónde voy, ni lo que hago; pero, yo también he gritado desde el fondo de mi abismo, hacia un poco de luz.

La primera mirada es tan imposible de conocer como la última.

Avouons notre ignorance, mais ne nous résignons pas à la croire définitive.

You can predict an eclipse a thousand years hence, but you cannot predict what will happen when you pull a bulldog's tail!

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

Odchodzisz beze mnie, moje ?ycie, Toczysz si?, A ja wci?? czekam, zanim zrobi? krok, Ty ju? gdzie indziej stajesz do walki ...

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot, If that wherein my hopes delight, be best or not

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

He sat there staring down into the descending darkness, his thoughts wildly mixed and uncertain. For the moment he knew only one thing; from this night forwards he would never be able to think of Jane Hudson or her sister without experiencing all over again the same awful retching sickness that he felt now.

Business will get better, but we won't know when it does

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.