Quotes About Uncertainty

Don't beat yourself up for not knowing all the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

I don't even feel so sure of that any more. I mean, if we were a couple, he'd be here, wouldn't he? He'd be here with me.

La vita reale non è veleggiare per Knightsbridge in taxi o scegliere valigie da mille sterline. No, questa è la vita reale. A casa in un minuscolo appartamento che puzza ancora di curry, una pila di lettere minacciose della banca che ti aspettano, e tu che non hai la minima idea di che fare al riguardo.

The thing with giving up is you never know whether you could have done the job.

It doesn't matter," she says, her voice soft. "Don't beat yourself up for not knowing all the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

Leila always reminds me of Bambi. She has long spindly legs and she wears high wedged sandals that clip-clop like hooves and she peers at the world through her long eyelashes as though she's not sure if it's about to shoot her.

We look at each other silently and I feel like we have more in common right now than I can ever remember. We met guys and we fell in love and everything seemed to work out. Until it didn't.

Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand

didn't dare to peer into the future.

You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that." "I always thought my life would be a certain way," I say, gazing down at my plate.

I know that things are still uncertain; I know that reality hasn't gone away. There'll be explanations and recriminations and messiness. But right now I'm entwined with a man I think I might love. And I haven't married the man I know I don't love. And from where I'm looking that's pretty good going, for now. At

Non ti colpevolizzare perché non conosci tutte le risposte. Non sempre è necessario sapere chi sei. Non è necessario avere il quadro completo, né sapere dove stai andando. A volte è sufficiente anche solo sapere cosa si farà dopo.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

I know not, but strained silence, so I deem, IS no less ominous than excessive grief.

But life takes sudden twists.

Oft we know not till we see. Weak is human prophecy. Judge not, till the hour have taught thee What the destinies have brought thee.

What men have seen they know;             but what shall come hereafter             no man before the event can see, 1420    nor what end waits for him.

Last night was a night of bad dreams and ambiguous visions.

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.

Therefore, while our eyes wait to see the destined final day, we must call no one happy who is of mortal race, until he has crossed life's border, free from pain.

Look at us, passengers in the grip of fear, watching the pilot of the vessel go to pieces.

Long have we lived in shadows and shuddering: today I think our future is opening out.

What should a man fear? It's all chance, chance rules our lives.