Quotes About Uncertainty

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.

Afraid is a country with no exit visas.

More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?

Fear and hope are alike underneath.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.

I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.

What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.

I think our nation is at a pivotal point. Too many people fear that we are losing the sense of limitless possibility that has always defined this nation.

Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

There's always fear. Always fear. Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying to you. Because this can all change tomorrow.

by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.

Just remember that everyone is struggling; everyone is living with fear and uncertainty and it doesn't matter what their politics are.

Fear is choosing the safe course

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.

No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don't know what I don't see—what I don't fear!

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

When something comes up that attacks peoples beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.