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Quotes About Uncertainty

You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.
~ Christian de Duve
I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
~ Stephen Rea
None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.
~ George R. R. Martin
Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.
~ Emily Dickinson
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
~ Victor Hugo
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.
~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
~ Cornel West
What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.
~ Mary Oliver
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The only certainty is death.
~ Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
death is always sudden however long one waits.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.
~ M.I.A.
No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.
~ James Caan
Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
~ Carson McCullers
Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.
~ Gloria Vanderbilt
Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate or fair. And make no mistake: here, you face death.
~ Henri
They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.
~ John Green
To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!
~ Edith M. Thomas
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
~ Graham Greene
There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Most things may never happen: this one will.
~ Unknown
Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]
~ Horace