Quotes About Uncertainty

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

So then you ask her when her birthday is, and she says, "Hmm, I don't really remember being born

Maybe this is what it's like when you die. Your inbox stays empty. At first, you just think nobody's answering, so you check your SENT box to make sure your outgoing mail is okay, and then you check your ISP to make sure your account is still active, and eventually you have to conclude that you're dead.

Death is certain. Life is always changing, like a puff of wind in the air, or a wave in the sea, or even a thought in the mind.

In your diary, you quoted old Jiko saying something about not-knowing, how not-knowing is the most intimate way, or did I just dream that? Anyway, I've been thinking about this a lot, and I think maybe it's true, even though I don't really like uncertainty. I'd much rather 'know', but then again, not-knowing keeps all the possibilities open. It keeps all the worlds alive.

Maybe she was in a coma after all and just didn't know it.

When everything you think you own—your belongings, your life—can be swept away in an instant, you must ask yourself, What is real?

if the washroom was unreal, then none of what he remembered from that afternoon in the washroom could be real, either.

I don't mind the risk, because the risk makes it more interesting

I've always thought time was a little iffy, myself.

I guess this is it. This is what now feels like.

Never be afraid of not knowing, young man. Not knowing is ze practice of poets and sages.

It also felt like home, and she wasn't sure she liked it.

I just can't imagine somebody else in the White House. I'm sure President Truman is a good man, but even the words feel peculiar in my mouth. A world without President Roosevelt seems like a strange and scary place.

Reminded us how exciting it was to abandon security and run toward the life that is waiting.

tell them all this? Wexford had no idea. Because

Thanks to the imagination, there's no end to things in this world that can trigger anxiety.

But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that.

I wasn't sure I knew any longer what was right and what was wrong. It was a very precarious feeling, but it hinted at a sense of liberation like I'd never experienced. Liberation from the countless little hassles of everyday life. It was as if the border between 'me' and 'not me' was dissolving, leaving me in a sort of slush. I was going somewhere I'd never been before.

The young people nowadays – men and women, amateurs and pros – generally fall into one of two categories: either they don't know what it is that's most important to them, or they know but don't have the power to go after it.

De toda esa miríada negra, cabalgándose y atropellándose, hacía una forma informe e inquietante, y me di cuenta, de súbito, que mi cuerpo estaba cubierto de piel de gallina. En la oscura pantalla, mis ojos turbios se reblandecieron como metal a punto de derretirse, y en voz baja le dije a aquel yo al borde de la licuefacción: '¿quién eres tú? ¿de qué estás hecho?

above, far above, We don't know where we'll fall. Far above, far above, What once was great is rendered small.