Quotes About Uncertainty

So, you never can tell what will happen when you learn to play the harmonica.

As we know from life, decisions are far more difficult to make than actions are to take.

They think life is A, B, C, D, E. That's just when life likes to turn you around, kick you in the butt, and grin: "Not today, my friend. Today it's E, D, C, B, A. Sorry." PRINCIPLE

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.

Just know that it's fear that keeps most people working at a job: the fear of not paying their bills, the fear of being fired, the fear of not having enough money, and the fear of starting over.

He doesn't see his path clearly, but also doesn't consider this absolutely necessary; he strikes out in some direction or other, and one thing leads to the next. All paths lead to lives of some sort, and that's all he requires, for every life promises a great deal and is replete with possibilities enchantingly fulfilled.

For hours and days he sought out ways to make unintelligible the obvious, and to find for things easily understood an inexplicable basis. --Thoughts on Cezanne

Fine, let's have the We're-safe-in-here-it's-INSANE-for-you-to-go-out conversation instead.

imagina como es saber que algo horrible va a pasar pero no saber cuando

Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I'd rather not talk about it, because I didn't understand it.

Only in chaos are we conceivable.

So we must run back and forth between these two suns in our firmament—the presentiment of death and awareness of life—and avoid being transfixed by either of them. If we are lucky in this uncertain middle distance, we may form attachments and projects that enhance the sentiment of life. However, even as we try our luck, death comes to us, and brings our experiment to a end.

The beauty of ethics is that nobody can be perfectly certain about what it includes or even what it means.

Fanaticism is ... compensation for doubt

When I hear girls I know longing to be what they call liberated, and when I hear others rejoicing in what they think of as liberation, I feel a fool, because I simply do not know where I stand. (Maria Magdalena Theotoky)

But what I knew then was that nobody-- not even my mother-- was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself on the surface.

banking is like religion: you have to accept certain rather dicey things simply on faith, and then everything else follows in marvellous logic.

I am like a man who has built his house on the lip of a volcano. Until the volcano claims me I live, in a sense, heriocally.

they were frightened by the concept of a brain tumor; the idea that anybody could have one; even they. The

Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.

Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?

Slowly, painfully, I let go. It was like prying my own fingers off the edge of the cliff. And that hurt too-particularly the falling part, and not being sure what was at the bottom. But I did know. Now was what was at the bottom. I was already there.

I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm here and I'm listening; and there is still joy in this world.