Quotes About Uncertainty

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

the worst happens when you least expect it

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.

People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

There are always loose ends in real life.

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

You know, what if everybody's wrong in life? And so you have to live your life yourself.

I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.

My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.