Quotes About Uncertainty

Why was it that the only choices that truly mattered were the ones you felt least prepared to make?

In a world where Murphy's Law reigned, be prepared for all contingencies at all times.

Why was it that the only choices that truly mattered were the ones you felt least prepare to make?

a world where Murphy's Law reigned, be prepared for all contingencies at all times.

The miracle of children is that we just don't know how they will change or who they will become.

Not knowing… that could be as hard to handle as despair.

We aren't guaranteed the time we think we need to mend fences with those we love.

I had these plans and it turns out I don't know anything. I can't even accomplish the simplest task.

You never knew what shape your enemies would take." from the book -- Black Gold of the Sun

T]wo Americans re-encountering each other after a certain time in a foreign land are supposed to clamber up their nearest lampposts and wait tremblingly for it all to blow over.

Please forgive me, but I've never had to change my mind so often at such short notice in my whole life. It's quite breathtaking. You see, first I thought you wanted my body, then I thought you wanted my love, then my life even, happily-ever-after and all that sort of thing, and now it turns out it is merely my money. Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you.' ... For what?' ... For restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

I remember a little later wondering why things always turn out to be diametrically opposed to what you expect them to be. It's no good even trying to predict what this opposite will be because it always fools you and turns out to be the opposite of that , if you see what I mean. If you think this is geometrically impossible all I can say is that you don't know my life

She stared at the goldfish bowl uncertainly. "I can never remember whether I've fed him or not," she said suddenly. "I kept on feeding them and they kept on dying all the time. All but one. So I don't know if he killed the rest or if I was over-feeding them or starving them or what. You're supposed to give them a pinch of food every day. But how big is a pinch anyway?

how will you feel going to your grave without having tried?

the fear that now your "fatal flaw" will reveal itself fully as you fail to make the

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.

I'm hoping that it is too late for you to flip over on me because it is certainly much too late for me.

Be confident, not certain

A great deal of fear is a result of just "not knowing." We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.

Perhaps we have to learn that life was not meant to be lived in security but with adventurous courage

Anxiety," Kierkegaard said, "is the dizziness of freedom.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.