Quotes About Uncertainty

It is a bad year for kings," said Gondy, shaking his head; "look at England, madame." "Yes; but fortunately we have no Oliver Cromwell in France," replied the Queen. "Who knows?" said Gondy; "such men are like thunderbolts—one recognized them only when they have struck.

D'Artagnan looked his friend earnestly in the face. You know one thing, continued the comte, leaning upon the arm of the captain; you know that in the course of my life I have been afraid of but few things. Well! I have an incessant gnawing, insurmountable fear that an hour will come in which I shall hold the dead body of that boy in my arms.

D'Artagnan is right," said Athos. "Behold our three leaves of absence, which come from M. de Treville; and here are three hundred pistoles, which come from I know not where. Let us go and be killed where we are told to go. Is life worth so many questions? D'Artagnan, I am ready to follow you.

Time follows its course carrying events with it; what is obscure one evening, is often revealed the next.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and muttering the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

Having reached the summit of his vengeance by the slow and tortuous route that he had followed, he had looked over the far side of the mountain and into the abyss of doubt.

Life is so uncertain, that we ought to secure happiness while it is within our reach.

Uncertainty is still hope.

What, have I been on the wrong road for the past ten years? What, can it be that in a single hour the architect can become convinced that the work into which he has put all his hopes was, if not impossible, then sacriligeous?

until the day when God deigns to unveil the future to mankind, all human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'wait' and 'hope'!

He could not do this, he whose past life was so short, whose present so melancholy, and his future so doubtful.

For behind all present happiness is concealed a fear for the future.

Fortune is a courtesan; favorable yesterday, she may turn her back tomorrow.

In those times panics were common

that last word of human philosophy, "Perhaps!

Mais dans ce monde il faut bien risquer quelque chose.

But there is no need to know danger in order to fear it; indeed, it may be observed, that it is usually unknown perils that inspire the greatest terror.

Mais qu'est-ce que l'attente, sinon une sorte de folie, et qu'est-ce que la folie, sinon un excès d'espoir ?

D'Artagnan wondered at the fragile and unknown threads from which the fates of nations and the lives of men are sometimes hung.

O governo sequer se dignou a responder a essa nota, e Bonaparte permaneceu em Paris. O que teria acontecido ao mundo se um funcionário do Ministério tivesse aposto a esse pedido a palavra "deferido", só Deus sabe.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

They were prepared for everything except what actually happened.

In the main we deal in this life, he says, chiefly with probabilities, with difficult choices often having to do with lesser evils, with situations where one must weigh the pros and cons and often act without anything approaching certainty, but act one must, for it is better even to make a mistake than to hobble oneself permanently in indecision.

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.