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Quotes About Uncertainty

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.
~ Robert Browning
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
~ William Sloane Coffin
If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.
~ Yoshida Kenko
Life is extremely complicated.
~ Robert Ludlum
I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.
~ Robert Rubin
Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog.
~ Rose Wilder Lane
I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.
~ Ruth Reichl
I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.
~ Ruth Reichl
The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.
~ Samuel Johnson
Life goes on with fragile normalcy.
~ Sara Gruen
Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.
~ Shia LaBeouf
And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.
~ Suzan-Lori Parks
The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
~ Ted Danson
Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.
~ W. S. Gilbert
The future has no shelf life
~ Warren G. Bennis
The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.
~ Daniel Silva, The Kill Artist
Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.
~ Alexandra Adornetto, Halo
It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.
~ Frances Conroy
I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
~ David Blaine
It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
~ Aaron Sorkin
Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
~ Amy Plum
I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.
~ Amy Smart
To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.
~ Andy Greenwald
Life is not always what we think it is.
~ Anthony Ray Hinton