Quotes About Uncertainty

Such a small thing to cast such a long & uneasy shadow over the future. For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain: it just won't be the same.

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

in life there were times when the entirely inappropriate was the only appropriate response. Perhaps

There's no point worrying about it now, at any rate. Things tend to sort themselves out, Alma thinks, although she knows that this directly contradicts the laws of physics, common sense, and her political experience of the last forty years.

If things were no longer going on the way they should be, didn't that mean anything could happen?

See, as it happens, I've got a couple of front row tickets for the end of the universe. I thought it'd be best to use them now. I mean, you never know... There may not be a second performance.

Deep down the fear of a man who lives in a world not made for him, whose own world is slipping away, dying, being destroyed, beyond any recall.

He was reluctant to open it, for once such a thing is opened, it cannot be shut again.

The only thing we know for certain is that Darquesse is coming, and she's coming to kill us all.

this is going to be dangerous, I can't make any of you come with me on this one. Questions" Everybody put their hands up "Sorry", Skulduggery said, "I meant 'volunteers'. Thank you

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong.

What are men? Children who doubt.

To grow up is to endure the equivocal, to permit the ambiguous.

In each episode of this series I will offer an applicant a blind choice of either a pleasant experience, a treat, or a darker trick. They wont know which one theyve chosen and they may not know how or when it will happen to them.

For me, the most enjoyable aspect of going out and performing is that I never know how susceptible people will be to my methods.

I found myself beset by so many doubts and errors that I came to think I had gained nothing from my attempts to become educated but increasing recognition of my ignorance.

Everything changes in the fullness of time and everything that lies ahead of us is a mystery; even in the end of our lives we have lived, but there it will still be a closed book when it becomes life after death. -MillYentei

The future is holding a lot of secrets, that shall bring many dreamy days jumbled with some of the darkest days. -MillYentei

They expect you to act as an Angel does, when they do not even know; if their souls are going to Heaven or Hell. -MillYentei

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

The world may be ever-changing and full of uncertainties, but walking away is not the answer. World-rejection, according to the epic, is dangerous and destructive.

It's the Indian headshake. It means you are probably right, or probably wrong. Who knows? Varuna has but a thousand eyes, Indra a hundred, you and I only two.

We can never know everything and we can never be sure. All information is incomplete, and all readings distorted by personal prejudice. And yet we have to take decisions all the time and hope the results favour us. Bhartrihari