Quotes About Uncertainty

We are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.

Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexing as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty. But we must move on. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

sure of anything right now. I'm just very tired.

short laugh. "Time will tell with you and Bobby Pearlman

It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever changing, different people at different times and under different circumstances and influences. And always growing, always creating themselves anew. How impossible it was to know another human being. How impossible to know even oneself.

It is also for stepping into the unknown, Claudia said, when it would be easier to cling what it familiar and safe.

I think it is more tha6 the sea is a reminder of how little control we have over our own lives no matter how carefully we try to plan and order them. Everything changes in ways we least expect, and everything is frighteningly vast. We are so small.

I am afraid that it will all be ruined. It is like stepping out into the darkness when one has a world of light and warmth behind one.

That is the excitement of life, he said when he was finished. The not knowing. It is often best not to know.

We would have met again some other time or in some other place,' he said. 'We would have been given other chances. Life recognizes the unpredictability of our movements in any given life. Somehow we would have met, Jane. We were determined that it would be so before we entered this life.

It is hard, is it not," he said, "to have one's life develop quite differently from what one expected and to feel not fully in command of it?

But he was well aware that the future could never be relied upon to be an improvement upon the present. The future did not exist. Only the present did.

Sometimes one does wonder if one lives quietly from choice or if in reality one is merely waiting for something that may never come.

When you read this, I shall be gone. I shall not tell you where I am going, because I do not intend ever to return.

He thought the library door would never open again, but that he would be left to live out the rest of his life rooted to the spot on the library carpet, afraid to move a muscle lest the house fall upon his shoulders. He deliberately shrugged them and shuffled his feel just to prove to himself that it could be done.

Some things, she said, are best not known for sure, Lord Trentham.

How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.

yourself in doubt or in danger—

You seem very anxious to lose your life.

I don't know what to do and my whole life seems to have gone to pieces.

What did you do. Hopkins, after you had made certain that you had made certain of nothing?

las mujeres suelen interesarse por todo lo que es nebuloso, misterioso, indefinido.

The past and the present are within my field of inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.

Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.