Quotes About Uncertainty

Who was I? Was I, I?

Quel che di fluido, di vivente, di mobile, di oscuro è nella realtà, sissignori, sfugge alla ragione.

Otimista é quem acha que tem que haver uma luz no fim deste túnel. Pessimista é o que não tem muita certeza de que isto é um túnel.

If any signs were obvious, I think I must have buried them. Because when you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

My grail chalice has been filled with an elixir that is perhaps headier than the wine of fact-it is filled with swirling, essential uncertainty and the difficult, mature task of dwelling in such a state.

if you're the kind of person who wants to know what's at the end of the universe, what's at the edge of being...and comprehension settles on you that you'll never know, despair can well up.

AT THAT TIME in my personal life, I was coming to grips with the end of the world. The familiar world, anyway. Many of us were. Scientists said it was ending now, philosophers said it had always been ending. Historians said there'd been dark ages before. It all came out in the wash, because eventually, if you were patient, enlightenment arrived and then a wide array of Apple devices.

Is she in a persistent vegetative state?" quavered David's mother. "Does she have brain damage?" My mother patted her shoulder robotically with a flat, board-like hand. "Unlikely," she said. "From a statistical perspective." A natural nurturer, my mother.

He had the suspicion that cogs were spinning, the universe beyond his walls was functioning and he was not, but he had no choice.

The future flew past in a flash of grim. The clock was ticking, and I didn't like that clock.

The route of the Christian is never clearly laid out beforehand. Like Matthew the tax collector, the disciple is simply called out. He is not immediately told where he is going, but he knows the One who has called and promises to walk with him. Consequently the journey, although never easy, is joyous and fruitful.

Ambiguities everywhere should be collected as evidence of ambivalence.

Life is not a straight and endless stairway, the steps of which we tick off as we go smugly on, but a forest of wandering paths

You're trembling," he said. "I think I'm scared." "But why?" He smoothed his hand over her hair. "I was a fool to have left you alone, but it won't happen again." "I've never had anyone try to kill me before." Richard patted her back gently. "'Tis a bit unnerving the first time.

The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing...

She nodded, but Tiny was still holding her arm, and he asked uncertainly, Are you sure you want to do this, Beau? It sounds painful. Not as painful as the turn, she said solemnly. And I'd go through this and a lot more to keep you as my life mate.

Basically, it seemed to him that when it came to life, you just had to roll with it and wait to see what happened next.

It seemed she would marry, be a wife to this unknown Scot, the mother of his children, and lady of his people . . . Lord save them all. R

think C. S. Lewis said it best: "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

He was, and always had been, the repository of more fears than hopes.

Much of life, you will never know what happened to you at all, let alone to anyone else.

Do you know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world, to not know why you're here. That's - that's just an awful feeling.