Quotes About Uncertainty

If I had my way, the story would end here. Renée was always braver. She always wanted to know what happens next.

There was an empty house on the other side of this drive, and I had no idea what it would be like to try to go inside it. There was nobody there. I wasn't driving back home—just back.

I abandoned the crate and curled up on the floor. There was no risking a hotel now, not on the last night. There would be no electric blanket, no champagne, no room service. What a world. It was the same world that would end tomorrow night.

The news was somewhere between an incredible accomplishment and a huge disaster.

Life isn't a merry-go-round, it's a roller coaster.

To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.

Though it may not be a suitable comment for even this confidential record, I thought, by no means for the first time in such surroundings, what an odd way it was for people of opposite sexes to spend the evening, when, after all, there was nothing ahead that any of us could be sure of but infirmity, illness, and death.

The sheer oddity of life seems to me of more and more importance, because more and more the pretense is that life is charted, predictable, and controllable.

There's something wrong… There's something wrong with almost everything.

One had to dispel practicality. Then something else could be heard – if one was lucky, if the sun was shining, if the paths were well made, if one wore the right garments: and if one made no attempt at definition or popularisation.

When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

It is almost as if the nearer one approaches to a thing, the less it proves to be there, to exist at all.

Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.

Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.

To play it safe is not to play.

The biggest risk in life is not risking.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

reality is always plural and mutable.

Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.