Quotes About Uncertainty

Pacheco had entered her apartment with thoughts of a pleasant drink with a pretty lady. He left with Myers's courier bag and backpack and no clear idea of what to do next.

With nothing to lose, David decided to roll the dice and

They agreed to go their separate ways on Sundays and had no idea what would happen when children entered the picture.

but it became rapidly clear he was gravely ill, probably from a brain tumor.

The night of March 9 was to be one of the longest and most terrifying of Mary's life.

We cannot have all the answers, Job; we don't even know all the questions.

I cannot remember whether this was my decision or her command. Maintaining such fogginess about free will is, I think, a secret to a lasting marriage.

the acting profession itself is precisely and endlessly this: waiting in a room for your name to be called. And then you hear your name, and they take you through the blank door into the room.

Certainty can only be on the side of domination. Certainty is to be found in the homogenisation of time, in the freezing of doing into being. Self-determination is inherently uncertain. The death of the old certainties is to be welcomed as a liberation.

The theory of crisis is not just a theory of fear but also a theory of hope.

there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

If I had to be anything, he told her, I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

Love was certainly not safe - not ever.

It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

At that moment, everyone walks on the sky. Maybe all great decisions are made without a net," The Wonder herself had told him. "There comes a time, in every life, when you must let go.

Mr. Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith's opposite.

Wizened and white, with brown blotched on her face the size and complexity of unshelled peanuts, Midge had a jitter in her head that made her pew like a chicken trying to make up its mind what to peck.

If you want to worry about something, you ought to worry about how Guadalupe was looking at you. Like she's still making up her mind about you. Guadalupe hasn't decided about you," the clairvoyant child had told him.

As often as I feel certain that God exists, I feel as often at a loss to say what difference it makes—that He exists—or even: that to believe in God, which I do, raises more questions than it presents answers. Thus, when I am feeling my most faithful, I also feel full of a few hard questions that I would like to put to God—I mean, critical questions of the How-Can-He, How-Could-He, How-Dare-You variety.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases. John Irving's The World According to Garp

Richard Abbott, who I thought knew everything, answered: "I don't know, exactly.

The only question that I wanted to ask the darkness was the one question Scrooge had also wanted an answer to: "'Are these the shadows of the things that Will be or are they shadows of the things that May be, only?'" But the Ghost of the Future was not answering.

OH, PLANS, PLANS, PLANS—how we make plans into the future, as if the future will most certainly be there!