Quotes About Uncertainty

What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know.

Anything worse than what I do, without knowing what, or why, I have never been able to conceive, and that doesnt surprise me, for I never tried. For had I been able to conceive something worse than what I had I would have known no peace until I got it, if I know anything about myself.

I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of how shall I say, I dont know.

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

Clov: Do you believe in the life to come?Hamm: Mine was always like that.

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

We play out our days as we play out cards, taking them as they come, not knowing what they will be, hoping for a lucky card and sometimes getting one, often getting just the wrong one.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead.

I do not greatly care whether I have been right or wrong on any point, but I care a good deal about knowing which of the two I have been.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

For fear does things so like a witch, 'Tis hard t' unriddle which is which

In human affairs there is no snug harbor, no rest short of the grave. We are forever setting forth afresh across new and stormy seas, or into outer space.

Inexorable etrangete! D'une vie mal defendue, rouler jusqu'aux des vifs du bonheur. How inexorably strange! In this shaky life, to throw even the quick dice of happiness. -Rene Char

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

When asked in 1994, for instance, which nation would have the greatest influence in Asia in the twenty-first century, 44 percent of the Japanese public said China, 30 percent said the United States, and only 16 percent said Japan.42 Japan, as one high Japanese official predicted in 1995, will have the "discipline" to adapt to the rise of China. He then asked whether the United States would. His initial proposition is plausible; the answer to his subsequent question is uncertain.

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

But Lord! how everybody's looks, and discourse in the street, is of death, and nothing else; and few people going up and down, that the town is like a place distressed and forsaken.