Quotes About Uncertainty

I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.

Flux has heightened us into knots of staid tension.

Maybe I had found true love. Not that true love is a bitter, rotten dead monkey in a box. But then again, maybe.

It seems to me, he emailed me later, that you start out with what you know or what you think you know and you work within those 'truthful' boundaries until you reach some sort of wilderness of not knowing, and then you find a way through until you see an end, or you find a way through until you find the end that you've already seen. It can work either way: running away from the truth, or running out of it.

compassion, skepticism, and uncertainty rather than on dogma

I guess I'm just afraid of whats going to happen. Because you can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

Once I heard Dantly tell Welton that the Native Americans used to call that particular part of the morning "between the wolf and the dog" because the sky is so deep blue and spooky or whatever that you can't tell what's what. Is that a wolf on that hill or a dog? A man or a monkey? A saint or the devil?

Once I looked over at Welton and he was wiping his nose. I couldn't tell if he was crying or on nasal spray.

You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are...

In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns.

The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure — and so often, people are unsure — is that breaking up involves persuasion. You have to persuade your ex that it is better this way for everyone. And this is difficult if you have not entirely persuaded yourself. It is especially tricky to do this if you are also naked, and making two cups of coffee.

We're all riding on our bubbles, she thinks, we're all waiting for the blessèd break.

Whoa, girlfriend! I was wondering if I was ever going to hear from you again. Pretty sure the hitchhiker killers or the spiders were going to get you.

Take nothing and no one for granted. Time used to be my friend, and now it's a skittish acquaintance at best. Let life unfold, say what you mean. You can't always think about what you've lost, or what you don't have, or what you didn't get. Because when you do that, you're missing out on the now. You can't know if you'll be here tomorrow or a year from now.

If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren't reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help?

It didn't occur to either of them that lives would be lost, that the world they were to defend would shift under their feet and never be the same again. They only dreamed of the adventure. A

If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren't reasons behind the terrible things that go on.

Man was not meant for safe harbor.

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all. -Cassandra

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

And trust dies from ifs and buts

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

Herzen declared that there were "no solutions": history, like nature, was an improvisation, subject to the play of chance.

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.