Quotes About Uncertainty

But this is not the faith that has given us religion. It would be rather remarkable if a positive attitude in the face of uncertainty led inevitably to ludicrous convictions about the divine origin of certain books, to bizarre cultural taboos, to the abject hatred of homosexuals, and to the diminished status of women. Adopt too positive an outlook, and the next thing you know architects and engineers may start flying planes into buildings.

Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about.

You can do what you decide to do-but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

VINCE: We'd never make it. We'd drive and we'd drive and we'd drive and we'd never make it. We'd think we were getting farther and farther away. That's what we'd think.

She keeps coming over to my table and asking me if everything's all right, as though I might be able to reassure her that the world is not coming to an end. "Yes," I tell her. "Everything's fine. It's just history running its course." She smiles sweetly and flees.

Death is the period at the end of a sentence. Someone gone, but still out there, is an ellipsis...or a question to be answered.

I don't think that I am happy, but then again, I don't know. Sometimes I get so caught up in the process of living-- of eating, dressing, taking the train to work, that I don't give it enough thought. Maybe happiness is being content. But is it really?

I am left with a feeling and I cannot tell if it's emptiness or fullness.

Is this what all the years of schooling were for? To prepare me for this Sense of being stuck in the middle? What was the point? No one said I was going to be this sad. No one said I would still be crying.

Maybe too many new things are happening. Maybe this is just me, and this is how my whole life will be.

Happiness, said he, must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.

Being in a ship is like being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Of the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason.

And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.    While

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win

The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical.

He that lives today as he lived yesterday, and expects that, as the present day is, such will be the morrow, easily conceives time as running in a circle and returning to itself. The uncertainty of our duration is impressed commonly by dissimilitude of condition; it is only by finding life changeable that we are reminded of its shortness.

Yeah, but I've got to decide soon, I said, feeling lost, cast out alone after so many programmed years. I don't know what to do.

Kita tidak tahu bagaimana hari esok, Yang bisa kita lakukan ialah berbuat sebaik-baiknya dan berbahagia pada hari ini.

Dodge, I'm going to tell you something. Judging by your tone, you're going to have to kill me after. Frankly, I'd just as soon not known.

His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didn't prevent it from flopping. He wiped his damp palms on the legs of his jeans and stood up shakily, leaning heavily on his cane. He called himself a masochist for putting himself through this torture day after day. He braced himself for the disappointment of having to go home alone. He braced himself for happiness like he'd never known in his entire life. He watched the door they would come through.

He took a long time to answer. "I asked which of her brothers had fathered the baby. She told me it could have been either.

Bad things happen when you least expect them

Nonetheless, it left him with a terrible doubt, a fear that inhabited every scene.