Quotes About Uncertainty

Faith is to believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.

For the believer there is no question for the non-believer there is no answer.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

We're living in such a fantasy world where nothing makes sense anymore.

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

Tick Tock Tick Tock...The clock strikes two ... still haven't got a clue.

No, I might not know what's coming, but I know where you're going.

The cell door opened. My hands went to my eyes. Why was the door opened? I wasn't dead yet. I think.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!

You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

Fear is your worst enemy. Risk is your best friend.

Somewhere in the fear and chaos, there is a clarity that few will ever experience.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.