Quotes About Uncertainty

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.

Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.

Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

I know what it's like to not know where you're going or how to get there. I know what it's like to have no one around you who can teach you how to be what you hope to become.

Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.