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Quotes About Uncertainty

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...
~ Donald Barthelme
Well, god damn it," Cayzer said. "Sometimes I don't know if I was stupid all my life or if I'm just getting stupid with old age. Come on along, you can ask them yourself.
~ Donald E. Westlake
What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering." (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)
~ Donald E. Westlake
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.
~ Donald H. Rumsfeld
The ways of Man are inscrutable. Man giveth, and Man taketh away. Blessed be the Name of Man (though Brother Chidiock Tichborne, who had a fine old name himself, had to admit that he did not know the name of his Man, nor of the Woman either).
~ Donald Harington
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
~ Albert Camus
Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life.
~ Leon Brown
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
~ Bette Davis
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.
~ Sterling Hayden
Life is a funny thing, the minute you think you've got everything figured out something comes along and turns it all upside down.
~ Zayn Malik
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
~ Margaret Drabble
Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.
~ Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
~ Milan Kundera
Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.
~ Tim Wynne-Jones
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
~ Gary Gygax
Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.
~ Alexa Chung
If you try too carefully to plan your life, the danger is that you will succeed-succeed in narrowing your options, closing off avenues of adventure that cannot now be imagined.
~ Harlan Cleveland
I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?
~ Clyde Tombaugh
Not knowing what will happen makes life fun.
~ Akechi Mitsuhide
Sure things are going to get sketchy, but when your having the time of your life whats sketchy?
~ Rob Dyrdek
One thing always sure. Life go on with you or without you, no matter how much you seen.
~ Lalita Tademy
I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
~ Sidney Poitier
I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
~ Alan Rickman