Quotes About Uncertainty

I can't name the poison that's killing your friend. But the one that's killing you is called hope.

I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning

I keep asking myself," whispered Sabetha, giving Locke's arm a squeeze, "ARE we smarter than that woman's chicken?" "At the moment, it's an open question," said Locke.

And will they all hang with with you, for fellowship,and split death into equal shares like loot?" "I am not caught yet

Go forth now and live, Locke Lamora. Live, uncertain.

Hardships are arbitrary, Locke. You never know which particular quality in yourself or a fellow is going to get you past them.

Get used to gaps in your comprehension," said Sabetha. "The rest of us certainly have.

He's dead for sure?" said Locke. "Well, heavens, I wouldn't know, I'm just the fucking physiker. But I heard in a bar once that dead is the accepted thing to be when your lungs are open to daylight," said Treganne.

Three things must you take up and three things must you lose before you die: a key, a crown, a child." Patience pushed her hood up over her head. "You will die when a silver rain falls." "You're making all this shit up," said Locke. "I could be," said Patience. "I very well could be. And that's part of your punishment. Go forth now and live, Locke Lamora. Live, uncertain.

Our perception of "reality" is an act of faith based on mere fragments.

Q: What's the definition of bravery? A: A man with diarrhea, chancing a fart.

Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

The joke was thinking you were ever really in charge of your life. You pressed your oar down into the water to direct the canoe, but it was the current that shot you through the rapids. You just hung on and hoped not to hit a rock or a whirlpool.

He smiled hesitantly and she smiled back in the same fashion, but he was unsettled by the thought that Muriel had undergone a transformation. Some of the stuff that had come out of her mouth lately, about God or babies, made him wonder if she'd had a brain transplant at some point in the last ten years. It was funny what happened to people after forty, when they realized that our place here on earth was leased, not owned.

Oh, the joy of knowing your good answers to our prayers include "Yes," "No," "Maybe," "Not yet," and "Not telling you"!

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

Anything can happen, the tallest towers Be overturned, those in high places daunted, Those overlooked regarded.

Bear with the present; what will be will be. The future is cloth waiting to be cut.

All I know is a door into the dark

Fate goes ever as fate must.

In 1965, physicist Richard Feynman opined, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics," and the sentiment is equally applicable today.