Quotes About Uncertainty

How long have you been here?" "I don't know. You just stole my watch," he said with a shrug.

If you don't do something because it might get wrong, you'll never do anything.

Every time she felt her life could not grow stranger, something happened to make her think she had been wrong.

She had been strapped into a roller coaster and the car had started to move. She could hear the irreversible clacking on the tracks.

It seems your problem is the same one we all have. You don't know if you are truly loved.

That night they sat up well past dark around the dim flame of a single gas lamp, knowing, I suppose, that going to bed would be an admission that there was no ordinary, everyday explanation for my disappearance, and that when they awoke in the morning, they would have passed into some new era in their lives — the era that began with the unexplained loss of one of their own, and whatever that might mean next for them.

I can't keep doing this," she said to Sy, "but I can't do anything else, either. So where does that leave me?

Living with uncertainty is like having a rock in your shoe. If you can't remove the rock, you have to figure out how to walk despite it. There is simply no other choice.

Moral decisions. She had thought she was done with them. You did your best and then wondered for the rest of your life if you'd done the right thing.

All we know about economics is that we do not know something

the futurists predict the future of nations, but is difficult for them to predict their future

I see the cliff's edge drawing nearer. I must jump or I will fall.

Os tempos modernos surgem justamente com esse questionamento sobre o real e o imaginário, essa desconfiança em relação a certezas que vinham sendo aceitas como verdades e que o espírito humano começava a desafiar.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

For most people life is not a fairy tale, it is an adventure.

Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success?

To-day belongs to me, To-morrow who can tell.

The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.

The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole.

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

Again begins the ridiculous, terrible waiting, in which we do not know which object to move, which gesture to repeat—what to do in order to make what we are waiting for happen.

If I were to receive to an anonymous pair of underpants in the mail, it would really spoil my life." --André Breton