Quotes About Uncertainty

Just when you thought you'd reached a good place in life, a crisis could erupt and spill into the corners you thought most secure.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

I told her that's exactly how I felt, but I didn't know

Die Vielschichtigkeit der Welt und das Verworrene der Beziehungen in ihr jagt uns allen den Schrecken des Unabsehbaren ein, da täte Klarheit schon ganz gut. Doch was bedeutet Klarheit, wenn die Verhältnisse immer undurchschaubarer werden?

I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn.

We walk towards nowhere, one foot in front of the other.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.

People shouldn't second guess God. If everything happened for a reason, it was usually too difficult to figure out what that reason was. Better to just accept things as they were, deal with them and enjoy the weather when it came, stay inside when it rained.

The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn't put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me

We can only go blundering along in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call us.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

Once the divinity of doctrine has been questioned there is no return to perfect faith.

Helen has reached an age when life itself has become fragile, when each day must be an only half-expected gift, when she knows there can be no future to talk about.

We are all mad at three in the morning

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

Washington's incessant need for NEW assessments testifies to uncertainty in the capital.

In Brussels the leaves had begun to fall, and a sudden wind blew them in gusts about the street. People felt the hidden chill of autumn in the air and wondered what would happen if the war were to last through the winter.

But once divinity of doctrine has been questioned there is no return to perfect faith.

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers—danger, death, and live ammunition

Try not to forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

Ich war fünf. Mit fünf weiß man nicht, was man zu erwarten hat. Man weiß auch mit zwölf nicht, was man zu erwarten hat. Vielleicht weiß man nie, was man zu erwarten hat.