Quotes About Uncertainty

Life does not have to go how you think it will," Tomasz says. "Not even when you are very sure what is going to happen.

We're each other's questions, aren't we? The question that never gets an answer.

As incredible as it seemed, time kept moving forward for the rest of the world. The rest of the world that wasn't waiting.

He knew it would come, and soon, maybe even this 12:07. The moment she would slip from his grasp, no matter how tightly he held on.

What's the point of lying about anything? We could keep being too afraid to say we don't know stuff and then the future will come and eat us anyway and we'll regret not doing all that stuff we wished we did.

Do you believe there's hope at the end?" "No, no, I dont, but im still going, you coming with me?

Do you believe there's hope at the end?" I ask. "No," she says simply, looking away. "No, I don't, but I'm still going.

He's uncertain what's going to happen next. But he is certain that that's actually the point. If this is all a story, then that's what the story means. If it isn't a story, then the exact same is true. But as his friends begin the final steps, pressing buttons, answering questions on a screen, he thinks that what is forever certain is that there's always more. Always.

No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky's too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?' 'And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there's so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don't get any work done because we're all looking at it too much?

I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.

I don't know what's ahead," I say. "I don't know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it's gotta be better than what's behind. It's gotta be.

Maybe probably ain't all that comforting a word when it's maybe yer not dying.

Son" his father said, leaning forward. "Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

Oh, forget it," he says with feeling. "Nobody knows anything.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Francia don't look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.

Better the devil you know. I wonder why the only choice is twixt two devils, tho.

I wonder if realizing you're not sure about stuff is what makes you a grown up?

I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don't remember nothing, don't remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone's ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it's true, but who knows?

I don't know," Gudmund said. "I really don't, Sethy. But we've got now, which is more than a lot of people have, right? Let the future take care of itself.

Yer a dead man!" Davy shouts, going in a full circle with the horse jumping and rearing. "Yer half right," I say.

But I begin to wonder if doubt is better than the wrong knowledge.

She waits to see how I take this. I have no idea how I take this.

Life does not have to go how you think it will...Not even when you are very sure what is going to happen.