Quotes About Uncertainty

But what I didn't realise was that when it came to that sneaking, camouflaged, untouchable giant known as the Future, I was as vulnerable as anyone.

You can see that for her, being a parent is standing on a shore and watching her child in a vulnerable craft, heading out over deeper and deeper water, hoping but not knowing there will be land somewhere ahead.

The more you research the science of depression, the more you realise it is still more characterised by what we don't know than what we do. It is 90 per cent mystery.

Mrs Elm's eyes sparkled with sudden life. 'Well, that's the beauty, isn't it? You just never know how it ends.' And Nora smiled as she stared at all the pieces she still had left in play, thinking about her next move.

When you have worries about things you don't know about, like the future, it's a very good idea to remind yourself of things you DO know

She tried to make herself look as presentable as it was possible to look in the two seconds before the arrival of a man she simultaneously slept with every night and also hadn't ever slept with. Schrödinger's husband, so to speak.

Listen,' she said, as she realised she wasn't going to be able to escape the bedroom any time soon. 'When you have worries about things you don't know about, like the future, it's a very good idea to remind yourself of things you do know.

Als je je zorgen maakt om de dingen die je niet weet, zoals de toekomst, helpt het om te denken aan dingen die je wél weet.

Far from being a curse, uncertainty can be a source of hope.

Struggling, flailing, just trying to survive while not knowing which way to go. Which path to commit to without regret.

Po?util sem se osamljenega. Ne depresivnega. Le tisti nedolo?ljivi najstniški ob?utek, da te nih?e ne razume. Seveda se tudi sam nisem razumel. Zaradi marsi?esa sem si delal skrbi … ves ?as me je nekaj skrbelo. Skrbelo me ni le tisto, kar bi me vetjetno moralo skrbeti: sama skrb. Trajalo je celih enajst let, preden sem naslovil to vprašanje.

The trouble with ladders is they give you no room to move around. Just room to fall.

Everything in life is uncertain. That is how you know you are existing in the world

While fear might want us to imagine the worst is certain, the future—like everything else—remains uncertain, unpredictable, open, free.

A deep, dreamless nothing, and now – thanks to the ring of a phone alarm – she was awake and didn't know where she was.

In a world where possibility is endless, the possibilities for pain and loss and permanent separation are also endless.

Maar het punt is: je weet niet wat de toekomst brengen zal. Je kijkt naar het nieuws en dat lijkt angstaanjagend. Maar je weet het nooit zeker. Dat is het hele punt met de toekomst. Je weet het niet. Op een gegeven moment moet je accepteren dat je het niet weet. Je moet ophouden met vooruit te bladeren en je gewoon concentreren op de bladzijde waar je bent.

It's hard to predict, isn't it? The things that will make us happy.

It's hard to predict, isn't it? The things that will make us happy.

Marcelo took a sharp intake of breath, as if the next question was something he had to swim under.

It's hard to predict, isn't it?' she asked, looking blankly in front of her as she moved a black bishop across the board to take a white pawn. 'The things that will make us happy.

And, for the first time, Nora worried about herself as if she was actually someone else.

You lose your job, then more shit happens.

There comes a moment in every life when we realise there is no land beyond the ice. There is just more ice. And then the world we know continues again. You sometimes have to look at what you know is there and discover the things right in front of you. The people you love. The time ahead of you is like the land beyond the ice. You can guess what it could be like but you can never know. All you know is the moment you are in.