Quotes About Uncertainty

Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty.

The presence of God is never a matter of certainty but always a matter of faith

And when you're alone there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up!

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place...

Some are sad. And some are glad. And some are very, very bad. Why are they Sad and glad and bad? I do not know. Go ask your dad.

She throws her coin into a fountain already filled with hopeful coins, yet wonders if the wishes might become tangled.

I know that its comin I just hope that Im alive for it.

Wouldve came back for you, I just needed time to do what I had to do. Caught in the life, I cant let it go. Whether thats right, I wont ever know. But here goes nothin.

She knows theres more to life, and shes scared of ending up alone.

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

My mind was a mess back then as I drove across the country. I was driving to clear my head, and all I could do was obsess on my uncertain future. It's like you're at a crap game, and on your biggest roll, the dice go in slow motion. For months, you watch them spin and roll and bounce around, waiting for them to land so you know if you're a winner or a loser. Total limbo.

When all the options are wrong," he muttered to himself in the darkness, "what does it matter which one I choose?

News comes from nowhere.

In dream, delusion, and fantasy, exist man's next best reality: that place where he is the creator of his own worlds; where he builds, learns, discovers and entertains; is master of all outcomes, his own god of destiny, and thus the student of his own evolving and ever uncertain truth.

Strive to accomplish the supreme unchanging goal. For life is passing, and there is no certainty about the time of death. Even if you should die tomorrow, you should have confidence and be without regret.

An hour at sea with Uncle Nicholas comprised forty minutes of waiting, nineteen minutes of wondering, and one minute of sheer excitement.

There is not much mystery about death. It's being alive that's the mystery. Death is the normality, life is the exception.

Creeping determinism means that we pay less attention than we should to the things that don't happen.

Predicting black swans, in other words, requires us not only to see the future outcome about which we're making a prediction but also to see the future beyond that outcome, because only then will its importance be known.