Quotes About Uncertainty

Whatever happens will be for the worse, and it is therefore in our interest that as little should happen as possible

We're all dancing in the darkness.

I had walked into Wilkinson a boy. Now, I wasn't at all sure who or what I was.

Quante volte mi sono trovato su un trampolino con sotto il mare azzurro, e non mi sono tuffato

Bad timing can change our perfect future together and separate us forever without even letting us know. Smile....... we'll never know.

Nothing could hold back time or tide, or weather, or what was going to come out of this now . . .

And she isn't certain yet that this is the woman her husband was seeing.

He cleared his throat, "Zoe, i think you said you love me." "I did say it. I do love you with all my heart." "I see." There was a long pause, then he said, "For how long has this been going on?" "I don't know," she said, "Sometimes i think it started a long, long time ago." "You might have mentioned it." "I didn't want to encourage it," she said, "I thought it was a bad idea.

He knew there were no forevers and there was always a way out, yet he lost his way, lost his balance.

Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was so lucky at it. Life was not a wheel going round and round. It never, ever returned to the same place. It didn't stick to simple red and black and a certain array of numbers. It laughed at logic. Beneath its pretty overdress of man-imposed order, life was anarchy.

rules seemed to constantly shift on whim.

hacía tiempo que había comprendido que el amor era traicionero. Podía transformar el mundo de cielo en infierno en un instante, y al instante seguiente volver a tranformarlo en sentido contrário, y asi ad infinitum.

We tend to think that the future happens later, but we're creating it in our minds every day. When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists.

What people don't like to think about is that you can do everything right—in life or in a treatment protocol—and still get the short end of the stick.

When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists.

Almost is always the hardest, isn't it?" she said one afternoon. "Almost getting something. Almost having a baby. Almost getting a clean scan. Almost not having cancer anymore." I thought about how many people avoid trying for things they really want in life because it's more painful to get close to the goal but not achieve it than not to have taken the chance in the first place.

I think about how it's not knowing that torments all of us. At a certain point, we all have to come to terms with the unknown and the unknowable. Sometimes we'll never know why.

We tend to think that the future happens later, but we're creating it in our minds every day. When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists. But if we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret.

I thought about how many people avoid trying for things they really want in life because it's more painful to get close to the goal but not achieve it than not to have taken the chance in the first place.

Uncertainty, I'm starting to realize, doesn't mean the loss of hope—it means there's possibility.

But now the kiss has presented another crisis for Rita—possibility. And that may feel even more intolerable to her than her pain.

There's nothing like illness to take away a sense of control

procrastinate or self-sabotage as a way to stave off change — even positive change — because they're reluctant to give something up without knowing what they'll get in its place.

people procrastinate or self-sabotage as a way to stave off change — even positive change — because they're reluctant to give something up without knowing what they'll get in its place.