Quotes About Uncertainty

This was our ritual while we waited for our lives to truly begin and I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo. I don't know why. Is it because we are so unsure, so tentative and waiting? Like it needs that much room, that much space to expand. The not knowing anything really, the hoping, the aching transience: This is not real, not really, and so we let it alone, let it unfold lightly. Those times that can fly. That's the way it seems now looking back.

It's very hard to be a boy, " Celine commented dryly. "You're never sure whether to love something or kill it.

If we all knew what was coming, maybe we wouldn't even stick around for it. Time present and time future.

I just hope I die naturally before somebody breaks into my house and beats me to death for whatever I happen to have in my wallet, it's just a race between the one and the other for me.

In ten years they would be dead, deported or in leadership positions.

If in doubt, always attempt to force the hand of chance.

The world is a dangerous place (...) There will always be blurred boundaries. There are plenty of good bad guys and bad good guys. Life's not clear and it's seldom fair (...) I don't want our child growing up under the illusion that it is. Shit happens.

G]radually, skillfully, [Parmenides] conjures up the image of us humans as stuck at this place where the road divides—unable to decide between the two paths, incapable even of seeing what the choice involves, just dithering in the space in between.

Then I asked my master, ëWhat if the woman will not come back with me?í

“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.

They told me, ëMake us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!í

and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.

So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.

In fact, you arrived only yesterday; should I make you wander around with us today while I do not know where I am going? Go back and take your brothers with you. May the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness.”

The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And Ahimaaz replied, “When Joab sent the kingís servant and your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I do not know what it was.”

At this, all the guests of Adonijah arose in terror and scattered.

He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?

Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in Godís hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.