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Quotes About Uncertainty

People crave certainty. And control. We spend our lives erecting coping mechanisms, little games we play to preserve the illusion of safety.
~ John Donohue
I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.
~ John Dos Passos
When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possesst.
~ John Dryden
Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It's unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except maybe writing a story. And nothing fails as often, except writing stories. And like a story, love must be troubled to be interesting.
~ John Dufresne
A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.
~ John Dufresne
Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.
~ John Dufresne
There's no solution to life, there's going to be problems no matter what.
~ Chris Colfer
Life has a strange way of working itself out
~ David Cook
Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.
~ David Niven
As you get ready to walk out under the bright lights of the improvisational stage of the rest of your life... be bold. Don't always worry about what your next line is going to be.
~ Dick Costolo
I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?
~ Dolph Lundgren
Life's a roller coaster, but I feel a change.
~ Don Most
The life is a wonderful thing. You have to appreciate it NOW... because you never know what is going to happen tomorrow.
~ Ekaterina Gordeeva
Life is so fast and it can change in an instant.
~ Elaine Cassidy
Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.
~ Emily Giffin
Time is old. Life is short. Only this moment is guaranteed to you. Fight hard to do the things you dream of. You may not have another chance.
~ Heather Dorff
Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?
~ Hildegard Knef
Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.
~ Indira Gandhi
What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.
~ James Purefoy
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
~ Jeanne Moreau
My career is one thing in my life that I don't plan.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.
~ Jess Walter
In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one.
~ William Daniels
All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.
~ Zygmunt Bauman