Quotes About Uncertainty

Living in the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next.

Living on the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next.

Fear is a funny unpredictable thing.

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.

The trouble with bubbles is, they burst.

Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape. Irony, quite possibly, makes fetishists of us all.

You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

Distance looks our way; the godwits vanish towards another summer and none knows where he will lie down at night.

But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.

What comes before and after we know not.

Nothing, however, is certain except uncertainty and there is always interference in the lines of flight.

I am anxious. I am always anxious. I should change my name to Anxiety Dickinson. I am anxious about my little sister. My big sister. My mother. Myself. Life. I am anxious about what to wear, what to eat, what to say, how to breathe.

Why is it you sent me to the madhouse?' I said. Reluctantly, he raised his head. 'You are out now. I don't see the point in asking this.' 'Is it because you loved me?' I persisted. 'Or because you do not?

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

I had asked Hunter once, when he was in a rare calm mood, 'Do you know when you're about to change? Are you aware of it?' Hunter said, 'Sandy, do you know what it's like? I'm just standing here, and I have a sense that something is about to happen. And then I start to turn my head, and it's here. The monster's here.

The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence.

the 21st Century is really a terrible time to be a control freak.

Unelmissa me elämme elämämme etukäteen, kun sitten näemme kaiken valheeksi, emme uskalla kumota sitä.

She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can't believe her, even if I could believe her.

Love is like jumping out of an airplane with no parachute. But there's no need to be frightened, because that plane is still on the ground.

If I told you I've worked hard to get where I'm at, I'd be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now.

You tell me you love me, but I'm not sure you know what love is, or how fast it flies, or how much it resembles a UFO, or what kind of weapon you'd use to shoot it down.

It's scary to be a woman on a blind date. For all she knows the man she is meeting up with could be a rapist, a murderer, or, God forbid, a politician.