Quotes About Uncertainty

I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall part and see options instead of endings.

You never know what lay ahead; the future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.

I can see that everyone else is doing exactly what they wanted with the rest of their lives. They're all at the gate, pawing the dirt and ready to run, and I've already got a lame leg and am this close to being taken around back of the stable to be put out of my misery.

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what really everything was all about. It was 20 minutes, 100 years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and it was this: it was happening. Right then as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards.

For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

I still felt unformed, like a cake half baked with edges crisp, but still mushy in the middle.

Like maybe it's forever, maybe it's not

The choice of no choice.

Hearing this, I had that feeling again, like the conversation was a pack of wild horses pounding out ahead of me, leaving nothing but dust behind. Trifecta?

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

But I was sure of something, too: it's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching, and rarely discovered—so many locks, not enough keys.

You never knew what lay ahead; the future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything. One minute you're walking through a dark woods, alone, and then the landscape shifts, and you see it. Something wondrous and unexpected, almost magical, that you never would have found had you not kept going. Like a new friend who feels like an old one, or a memory you'll never forget.

the truth is, nothing is guaranteed.

It was a feeling I'd woken up with one morning, a kind of whirring in my ears and an instability to the world, like things were coming to a head. I faced myself in the bathroom mirror and looked into my eyes, wondering if I would see something new in them, something crackling and different. I felt strong, as if every muscle in my body was taut and lean, not creaky and bony anymore.

Punish you for what? said Jack. Everything! Nothing. I don't know. That's the problem, said Holly. That's what happens when you grow up the way I did. You spend the rest of your life just waiting for God to smite the shit out of you.

Our model ships look perfect in their bottles, but we do not know if they are seaworthy. Sometimes the one that reaches your harbor has already been through the storm.

She drew back from his embrace so she could look into his eyes, her own swimming with tears. The uncertainty in her face nearly killed him. She had no idea how lovable she was. How precious and brave and special.

Ever after she lived alongside the knowledge that nothing on this earth could protect her completely.

Do you think she's still here?" Jonah asks.

I hesitate. I feel like we forgot something. But what?

Of course I wondered if I was dreaming, but it seemed so real.

Just to make sure it wasn't cancer. Or a heart attack. Or lymphangioleiomyomatosis. Which, sure, only affected one out of a million people, but it started with a cough, and if you were the one out of a million, then you were done-like-dinner within the year.

What if my country is destroying itself? Could I leave? Should I? And if so, what time's the next train to Montreal? Well, maybe not Montreal.

there are some things in life a person just cant know