Quotes About Uncertainty

Each life is a spool of thread that unravels through the years, and it is by a thread that we are so perilously suspended.

it. At intervals of forty or fifty feet, air monitors were mounted on the right-hand wall. I found no signs of tampering. If the passageway led to the cooling-tower vault, as I was sure that it must, then it would be about four hundred feet long. Twice I thought I heard something behind me. When I looked over my shoulder, nothing loomed. The third time, I refused to succumb to the urge to glance back. Irrational

I feel like I've been sliding all day.

I'd guess that what's behind you is much more than what lies ahead, though you have a way to go yet.

I don't know whether to call a medical doctor or psychiatrist," she said to Bailey, "but I refuse to call an exorcist.

hope and trust will more reliably keep a man afloat, while fear is more like to sink him.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know. Maybe there is wisdom in that recognition. Unfortunately, I have found no comfort in it.

The stairs creaked. They always creaked when creaking could lead to your death, and they never creaked when creaking didn't matter.

she halts, gripped by the intuitive perception that her island has changed.

Litigation is expensive. I could lose. I'm aware of that.

This world is mysterious. Sometimes we perceive the mystery, and retreat in doubt, in fear. Sometimes we go with it.

She stands just outside her door, puzzled, vaguely disquieted.

Life is full of mysteries, isn't it? And maybe we don't always need to know the answers to them. Each thing we don't understand is a wall, and we spend our lives throwing ourselves against those walls, with little to show for it in the end. Maybe sometimes it's just best to accept the limitations of our understanding, accept that some things will be forever beyond our

until it isn't.

What does worry accomplish, except to breed more worry.

He doesn't know who pays for what he needs.

Like his more engaging story, mine suggests that the world is a more mysterious place than it seems to be most of the time

subatomic particles aren't fixed.

Fear of the unknown is the most purely distilled and potent terror.

When danger can be sensed but not identified, then everyone and everything becomes a source of concern; the world from horizon to horizon seems hostile.

The vision has passed, but he feels as though he is standing above a void, with nothing to support him, that his fall is about to begin, that he'll shatter his bones on the bloody rack and ruin below.

It was unnerving to have allies who struck you as goofy; it made your own opinions seem suspect.

Two lawmen, one also a teacher. What's happening to the world, Mr. Shepherd? Is it all falling apart?

the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft a-gley.