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Quotes About Uncertainty

In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.
~ Joan Rivers
The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Few things move as quietly as the future.
~ Bernard Williams
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
~ Georg Simmel
No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
~ Haruki Murakami
You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.
~ Helen Mirren
I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.
~ John Maus
God, though this life is but a wraith, Although we know not what we use, Although we grope with little faith, Give me the heart to fight and lose.
~ Louis Untermeyer
Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.
~ Roger Crawford
What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?
~ Pema Chodron
Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it
~ Olive Ann Burns
I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.
~ Drew Barrymore
At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska
Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.
~ Jim Butcher, Death Masks
Real life seems to have no plots.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.
~ Charles Ghigna
If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.
~ Clint Eastwood
Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.
~ David Gemmell
When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.
~ David Hume
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
~ Jonathan Swift
I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.
~ Kurt Cobain
He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.
~ Marlo Thomas
I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.
~ Bethenny Frankel