Quotes About Uncertainty

I don't know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.

In Austin, someone has scrawled on the bathroom wall of a cafe on Congress Street, "I don't know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.

We rattled on, away from Les Mille, and we racked our brains as to where they could be taking us. To the Pyrenees? To one of the camps in the East Pyrenees? Or farther away toward the west? Maybe to Gurs, where our wives were?

Funny how you can fear change, even when already surrounded by the worst of the worst.

Alex said, his voice subdued, tense. "So it would seem," D.D.

She walked the edge of the anxiety attack, feeling the shakes and knowing that she either found solid footing now or plunged into the abyss.

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Things are always different from what they might be.

Conclusion means death. Confusion means possibility.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.

I think we are living in pretty scary times and people are looking for inspiration and are also more open to the spiritual possibilities.

I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.

Like everything else in life, these questions have no easy answers.

Whole world is not looking for religion, it is looking for its own safe side.