Quotes About Uncertainty

Everything in life is uncertain. That is how you know you are existing in the world, the uncertainty. Of course, this is why we sometimes want to return to the past, because we know it, or we think we do. It's a song we've heard.

Erwin Schrödinger . . .' 'He of the cat.' 'Yes. The cat guy.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with this life, but she felt inside her a craving for other things, other lives, other possibilities. She felt like she was still in the air, not ready to land.

That feeling you have, that everything is going to get worse, is just a symptom.

Equidistante. Não alinhada a uma margem nem à outra. Era assim que ela havia se sentido na maior parte da vida. Presa bem no meio. Lutando, se debatendo, simplesmente tentando sobreviver sem saber para onde ir. Nem com que caminho se comprometer sem arrependimentos.

an anchor fixes you in one place. And I am still not fixed. Could I just keep sailing through life for ever feeling like this? A boat has to stop eventually. It has to reach a port, a harbour, a destination, known or unknown. It has to get somewhere, and stop there, or what is the point of the boat?

A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it.

Death is the opposite of possibility.

those ever-darkening stairs of the mind

But it is sometimes more fun to explore than to know. And you might find that you love the voyage in all its stumbling uncertainty.

You get near a black hole and the gravitational pull drags you into its bleak, dark reality.

Amidst the Brambles, a changeling cannot help but feel exposed, vulnerable, and even trapped, and those feelings are not without merit.

Half the ideas in this book are probably wrong.

And you never know when a meal will be your last . . . None of us do.

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday; I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

Thou waitest for the spark from heaven: and we,Light half-believers of our casual creeds,Who never deeply felt, nor clearly willed…Who hesitate and falter life away,And lose tomorrow the ground won today—Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

die in place or undertake a desperate swim to greener pastures on other islands beckoning in the distance. The moral of the story: There doesn't need to be a pig trapper or a turkey farmer in the equation to cause a mass die-off event; nature can do it all on her own. And nature doesn't care about your schedule, or your personal problems.

There is nothing permanent about being a writer.

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

A priest once asked Mother Teresa if she would pray that God would give him clarity in a choice he had to make. She told him, "God may never give you clarity. All you can do is trust.

We are afraid because we don't know how things are going to work out, but things are going to work out.

you never knew how things might go on Judgment Day.

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'