Quotes About Uncertainty

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

The future is uncertain, and therefore I can't predict it.

We live with a future where every three or four months, we have to question everything. You think you could be the best, or that you're nothing and you don't know what you're doing. It is exhausting.

Impossible to see, the future is.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

I'm scared of the future. I'm scared of the past. I'm nervous at the moment.

You never know what the future brings.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.

Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future

You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

It's always difficult to make predictions about the future.

I will not rule out anything. I don't speculate on my own future. I'll wait and see what happens.