Quotes About Uncertainty

You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

To be on the wire is life. The rest is waiting.

What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question?

I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.

there are some things in life a person just cant know

Unfortunately, real life can't be wrapped up with a nice little bow.

All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.

You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life

I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear of that change. What will happen then? I have the fear that something unexpected may occur.

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

Life is amazing, isn't it? You can't ever tell what will happen. Nobody knows until they go ahead and play the game.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow.

Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.' Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.

And if I didn't, I'd spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I'd had the guts to try.

Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.

Every time we make an assumption—for example, that we understand our spouse—we are exposing ourselves like an open wound. Assumptions and expectations that rely on someone or something else leave us vulnerable. At any moment, one of the uncountable possible contradictions can pop up and sprinkle salt on our assumptions, causing us to flinch and howl.

Often faith comes in the aftermath of doubt and doubt comes in the aftermath of faith. And the one that comes second is often much more powerful. In the end we have to abandon both.

It is a gift to be able to kill doubt with doubt.