Quotes About Uncertainty

It's best not to get settled on things being a certain way, I realized. Life had a funny way if interrupting your plans.

If safety is my goal, living life is not.

I feel I'm living in parentheses

To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.

I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.

Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.

Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.

What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either.

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.

Life is funny...we never know what's in store us and time brings on what is meant to be.

disappointment is devastating, even if it's something that you didn't really expect to occur.

...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me...

Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!

I could still turn back before I pass the last houses and really have to commit to this.

Often she felt as though she had been picked up and turned about like a kaleidoscope, that all her complacent assumptions had been shaken up and reassembled in a different order

It's not that people don't know when they'll die. It's that they don't seem to know they'll die.

Death occurs in unexpected times.

Life has simply decided to open the floodgates, trying to drown me in a whirlwind of twists and turns.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.

No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?No. It's never like what you expected.Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?

She felt like a baton getting passed along in a relay race, completely devoid of any control over her destiny.

, m./But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be 'set fair' that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.