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Quotes About Uncertainty

no skill in the world, nothing human can penetrate the future.
~ Sophocles
To dare is to momentarily lose one's footing. But not to dare is to lose one's self.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Do it or don't do it — you will regret both.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Durven is even de grond onder je voeten verliezen. Niet durven is je leven verliezen.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I see it perfectly; there are two possible situations - once can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
And now, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance, I could've missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the Dance.
~ Garth Brooks
It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.
~ Gayle Forman
I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.
~ Geoff Rickly
Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
~ George Bernard Shaw
So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.
~ George Eliot
What shall we call this undetermin'd state, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans, That whence we came, and that to which we tend?
~ George Lillo
I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don't know where I'm going to take my career.
~ George Michael
I know the struggles that are ahead in my life and I know the struggles that are ahead in your life. It's not going to be pretty.
~ Glenn Beck
When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.
~ Gloria Allred
Are there Martians out there? I haven't got a clue. Is there life out there? I have no idea.
~ Gordon Strachan
Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.
~ Graydon Carter
I don't know when the end of the world is, but there are people that I speak to every night, the end of their world could be tomorrow because we don't know when life will end.
~ Greg Laurie
What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.
~ H. L. Mencken
Nothing is uncontroversial anymore, and very little is innocent.
~ Hans Koning
Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
~ Harlan Coben
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
~ Haruki Murakami
Life: I'll never understand it.
~ Haruki Murakami
You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.
~ Haruki Murakami