Quotes About Uncertainty

She ceases to continue with the day do day farce of getting through the next few hours in an attempt to ward off the fact that she doesn't know how to get through the next forty years.

I have this grief and I don't know why.

You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings.

Most things a person does," she said to the dark liquid of the goblet, "they do for several complicated reasons. I'm rarely certain that my motives are pure.

in my small pocket of my own isolated country, I felt like I understood my world and myself, but now, I'm actually embracing not knowing and I'm questioning much of what I thought I did know. I kind of like being confused, wrestling with contradictions, and not having to wrap up issues in a minute before a commercial break.

My life felt unreal and I felt half-invested. I felt indistinct, like someone else's dream.

I wish I could ask the future whether I should give up or keep trying. Then again, what if trying, even in the face of certain failure, feels as good as accomplishing? What if it's even better? And here we are again.

Worry is impatience for the next horror.

I don't know myself as well as I used to .

I'm faced at every moment with two possible lives, and I must choose one without knowing whether I want it, whether it's worth it.

It's impossible to fail if one doesn't know how the end should look. And it's impossible to succeed. But it's possible to enjoy.

I wish I could ask the future whether I should give up or keep trying.

I wish I could ask the future whether I should give up or keep trying. Then again, what if trying, even in the face of certain failure, feels as good as accomplishing? What if it's even better? And here we are again.

Part of me could do it. Run off and get married. But another part... Another part of me wondered if I could really trust anyone. If all relationships were all doomed.

The future felt like a herd of buffalo stampeding straight at me, and all I wanted was to get the fuck out of the way.

The spikes above Livergate were a cruel reminder that his life now depended on mine, and it was by no means a foregone conclusion that I would live to see sunset tomorrow.

The world is disappearing, piece by piece; the darkness has closed in around me long before the sun sets.

There's not supposed to be anything left after the end of the world, even if the end of the world doesn't quite happen.

It is one thing to suspect yourself of going mad; it is another thing entirely to discover your suspicions are correct.

I felt like an old bone being worried by three dogs, like sooner or later one of them was going to pull too hard, and I was just going to snap in half. The Money Dog, the Fever Dog, and the Dreams Dog I called them, and I didn't know which of them I should be scared of most. They all three had teeth like alligators.

He said he loved her, but love, as she well knew, was unreliable. Like Christmas, it came with expectations.

She felt a moment of anxiety as she contemplated all the things that could go wrong, but her anger was too great for her to back down. And anyway, she knew exactly what would happen. As soon as she was out of the door, he'd call his mother.

If a person is willing to lie to you once, how can you ever be sure they won't lie to you again? The trust was gone. If there's no trust between two people, what is there? No relationship is perfect. No matter how much love there is, there's a strong chance you're going to hit rocky times at some point. Life is unpredictable. It can throw out the unexpected and the challenging. Coping with that requires trust and honesty.

You feel out of control, but we can't control everything that happens in life. Sometimes we just have to go where the tide takes us and know we'll cope with whatever comes along.