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Quotes About Uncertainty

A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.
~ John Towner Williams
All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.
~ Blaise Pascal
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.
~ Joseph Brodsky
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
~ Franz Kafka
I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
~ Samuel Butler
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
~ Pema Chodron
The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.
~ Brock Yates
A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.
~ Carlos Castaneda
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.
~ Anne Sexton
Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.
~ Unknown
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
~ John Dryden
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
~ Ayn Rand
The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.
~ Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
~ Ernest Hemingway
We live on the cusp of death Thinking it won't be us
~ Macklemore
For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I am going to seek a great Perhaps.
~ Unknown
I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
~ Unknown
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude
~ Laurell K. Hamilton