Quotes About Uncertainty

All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.

gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again.

It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

I stopped trying to figure it out a long time ago. I'm never going to figure it out,any more than a normal person will figure out his or her own existence. After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are . There is no way to know why. You can have theories, but there will never be proof.

So what do you have to confess now? I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this. What is 'this'? Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing.

vagary, n. The mistake is in thinking there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it's a game, I know I'm going to lose.

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope.

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

I don't want to throw everything away for something uncertain.

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope.

You can't deny that there's something between us. No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of that waiting rushed through me in a second. That's something... but I don't know if it's certainty.

Sometimes you make plans. Sometimes plans make themselves.

I see Nick's number. I debate whether to assign a name to his number. If I commit to that, then I will truly be heartbroken if he never calls me again; my heart will knot each and every time I use this phone and see his name in there. I would probably end up having to trash the phone entirely.

Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.

Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness.

It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.

There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone, Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life.A decision to settle for something that's okay. Because you don;t know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better even if you know he won't change.

This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

I mean, being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them… but it can also mean you're trapped.

Let's make plans," I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, "No, let's leave it to chance.