Quotes About Uncertainty

Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.

Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too.

We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.

In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.

I'll never know what my life would have been like if they hadn't made Lawrence of Arabia. What would I be? I would maybe have 10 children, a very fat wife. I would be very fat myself. I don't know.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning to take me out themselves.

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

With sports, you get the results back right away. With life, it's not always so black and white.

Life can seem rather unreal at times. Alive and well and loving one day. No longer there the next.

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.

Any life worth living is going to have risks

We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

Life is. I am. Anything might happen.

The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.

Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over

It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.