Quotes About Uncertainty

Do 'ifs' really make Flutterbudgets? I think the 'ifs' help, he answered seriously. Foolish fears, and worries over nothing, with a mixture of nerves and ifs, will soon make a Flutterbudget of any one.

Al principio habíase preguntado si se haría pedazos cuando la casa volviera a caer; mas a medida que transcurrían las horas sin que sucediera nada terrible, dejó de preocuparse y decidió esperar con calma para ver qué le depararía el futuro.

Of course you don't know. Nobody knows why; we only know it's so, and can't tell why it's so.

The beauty of life is its sudden changes. No one knows what is going to happen next, and so we are constantly being surprised and entertained. The many ups and downs should not discourage us, for if we are down, we know that a change is coming and we will go up again; while those who are up are almost certain to go down.

Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next

The life of a gambler was somewhat checkered.

as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

There's nothing you can take for granted; not a single day, not a single minute, not a single relationship.

I'm confused tell me where we go wrong? I was sure that I would be with you for so long.

I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or it ends.

Lots of people feel more alive when theyre riding a roller-coaster relationship. But while this might be fun for a while, it cant possibly last.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

There is nothing more secure in a relationship than a sense of insecurity.

Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship or taking the new job or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.

God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

My religion is no way of knowing me.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.