Quotes About Uncertainty

I'm told that I'm Wisdom, but how would I know?

I settle on nothing; I decide nothing. This is not a final place. There is no such place.

I'm so crazy I can't know anyone anymore. I listen to voices, see people who aren't tangible to others; they sustain me, and I need them. Who's to say who's really here?

I'm sure I will change before I die, unless I die today or tomorrow.

And, as usual, you don't really know what you want.

the rags of chance.

The dead people want to know why everything turned out this way.

I'm trying to make a girl fall in love with me; I'm afraid it won't work, but it's a way of making my love take an outer shape.

Cloaking what? A further horror.

Do I need him? Do I really have to have this life?

Is there always a further horror?

Fate, I say, has claws.

I'm so sticky with Fate that I can hardly move for fear of it. Maybe the point is that you can always see or feel it coming. The beginning and the unraveling at the same time, you see. You need to get slightly ahead.

For days and nights I didn't know if I wanted to live

living in the slippery maybe the last green places are you listening

severed by light from myself not knowing but almost

Our Way is called a Narrow Way often a lonely road a road of trusting uncertainty ... I need A safe space—no matter how small— to get off the road till my vision is clear till I can see through the tears till hands steady against the fears ... I need To remember that my life is hidden in the cleft of the Rock that to surrender is to stay, to still, to remember love always makes a Way ...

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." —C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)3

For as long as I am alive, I will be growing and improving, wielding my pen as the author of my own forever. But even as I lift my life to the next level, I hope to always recognize my reflection. I want to know who I am and accept every part of that identity. I am frightened and I am fearless. I am weak and a warrior. I am uncertain and I am confident. And by learning to embrace the paradox in all of it, I am more myself.

I now see so clearly what escaped me then: It's not that the ground underneath me was suddenly shifting; it's that it is never still. That's part of the work of my journey—getting comfortable with life's groundlessness.

Nothing but uncertainty is uncertain. Circumstances come together, only to fall apart moments or months later. And then, in a flash, we must rise up again and regain our footing. In the rearview mirror, I now see so clearly what escaped me then: It's not that the ground underneath me was suddenly shifting; it's that it is never still. That's part of the work my journey - getting comfortable with life's groundlessness.

Nothing but uncertainty is certain. Circumstances come together, only to fall apart moments or months later. And then, in a flash, we must rise up and regain our footing. In the rearview mirror, I now see so clearly what escaped me then: It's not that the ground underneath me was suddenly shifting; it's that it is never still. That's part of the work of my journey—getting comfortable with life's groundlessness.

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt."-Alison Croggon