Quotes About Uncertainty

You'll make mistakes because it's impossible to know what is or isn't a mistake until it's made.

Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it.

the drama below and the drama above could easily collide at any moment

True courage consists in being courageous precisely when when we're not.

Every chance worth taking will make you a little scared. That means you're taking a risk. And where there is risk, there is reward.

Doubters don't mean a damn thing. I doubt it'll rain tomorrow, but that doesn't mean I control the rain. What I think has no bearing on what is. The wise ask questions, Perry. The weak doubt.

She had no idea what the future would hold for any of them, beyond possibilities as infinite as the stars. And really, that was enough.

Being at one with everything just means accepting that the future is always going to be unsure and learning to find ways to be okay with the uncontrollable sequence of events.

The future is always unknown.Live your own life.Live in the moment.Live so well in the present, so that when tomorrow never comes, you may have no regrets.

The future is always unknown.

What happens now will not matter in the future.

Keep faith in your abilities to deal with an uncertain next

All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about.

I'd rather believe in something and be wrong, than believe in nothing and be wrong.

Nothing exists but my breath. I know this feeling. Usually it comes when something unexpected and momentously awful is about to happen, which doesn't make sense now. I'm just going home.

Sometimes you have to take a shot in the dark to discover the light.

God doesn't ask us to understand, but He does ask us to trust.

How many paths had I avoided in life? How many times had I been content to stop at "close enough"--too afraid to push ahead? Too afraid to let go?Too afraid to give up . . . control.

You start thinking about Yeats, him saying that life was a long preparation for something that never happens. You just got to wait it out.

We been abandoned, Lieutenant. We been kicked off the edge of the goddamn cliff. They don't know how to fight it, and they don't know how to stop fighting it.

just when you think you've got it all sorted, something happens to make you question yourself and the world all over again.

Maybe I'm telling you what you already know, but I don't know what anybody knows anymore.

And worst of all, what if you don't know what you like at all? What if nothing sticks? Then you spend half your life wondering what it is you're supposed to be doing next. What happens after that?

there's just so many goddamn things we never get to know. We're not entitled to all the truth.