Quotes About Uncertainty

As the adage says: "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.

If someone asks me if I believe in God, I shake my head like I couldn't give a shit, but the truth is, I do. I just don't know what to do about it.

On a journey into the unknown, perfect progress is perfectly impossible.

They could neither go back nor remain in place. Like their wagons, they had no brakes, no way of stopping the high-stakes journey on which they had wagered their lives and fortunes.

On a journey into the unknown, perfect progress is perfectly impossible. Edwin

I like people who are not sure of themselves, the perplexed, the modest, those who try to understand.

Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

You know, sir, this operation is not, in any hands, a hundred percent predictable? Well, I'm an optimist. I didn't know there were any more such animals, said Dr. Courtland. Never think you've seen the last of anything

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

Could she ever be, would she be, where she was going?

Welcome! I said—the most dangerous word in the world.

He, who had once been the declared optimist, had not once expressed hope. Now it was she who was offering it to him. And it might be false hope

He did not like illness, he distrusted it, as he distrusted the road without signposts. (Death Of A Traveling Salesman)

Je préfère la vie à la mort, exister à ne pas exister, car je ne suis pas sûr d'être une fois que je n'existerai plus

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Det er ikke sikkert at alkohol dreper alle sykdomsbasiller. Når det gjelder neshorneri, vet man ikke noe foreløbig.

There is no reason for anything. If I knew, if I could see, could understand, I should return to silence and night. I think that if what impels me to live could be explained to me I should stop living.

Where am I? What the hell difference is it? There's plenty o' fresh air and the moon fur a glim. Don't be so damn pertic'lar!

Perhaps because waiting for an inevitable disaster is worse than the disaster itself.

Sometimes it was hard to tell whether the fog was rolling in over the city or whether the city was drifting out to meet it.

But risk perception may not be about quantifiable risk so much as it is about immeasurable fear.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

If there's one thing every good novelist understands, it's that our inner world is unreliable and yet there's no getting beyond it. Every sense is subject to deception, including the moral sense. What seems at first like the hard surface of spiritual reality is really fathomless when you dive down into it. There is no bottom. We neve know anything for sure. (p. xvi)

There are so many doors to walk through in life, you can't be afraid of all of them, even if you know one of them might be your last.