Quotes About Uncertainty

Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition.

Life was what happened when all the what-if's didn't, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

Life can change in an instant.

I live quite an unsettled life.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street

I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the uncertainty of events creates fear and doubt.

Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day.

You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!

Our greatest motivation in life comes from not knowing the future.

Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.

Most people living in the world are confused about life

I was excited to do something, even if I didn't know what it was. I think you need that feeling—that excitement, that fire—to make your dreams a reality. (p.59)

And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.