Quotes About Uncertainty

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

Life turns on a dime.

You never know where the trapdoors are in your life, do you?

She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.

In a book, all would have gone according to plan... but life was so fucking untidy — what could you say for an existence where some of the most crucial conversations of your life took place when you needed to take a shit, or something? An existence where there weren't even any chapters?

I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.

Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.

She thought that things could not get worse . . . but they always can, and often do.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

We never know. Any day could be the day we go down, and we never know.

I know I can do it, Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.

Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.

I'm so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see.

I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

You haven't finished the key, but not because you are afraid to finish. You're afraid of finding you can't finish. You're afraid to go down to where the stones stand, but not because you're afraid of what may come once you enter the circle. You're afraid of what may not come. You're not afraid of the great world, Eddie, but of the small one inside yourself.

people always want a reason for the bad things in life. Sometimes there ain't one.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

A frightening possibility suddenly occurred to him: maybe sometimes things didn't just go wrong and then stop; maybe sometimes they just kept going wronger and wronger until everything was totally fucked up.

There's three things ye can do in any situation, girl, her father had told her once. Ye can decide to do a thing, ye can decide not to do a thing... or ye can decide not to decide. That last, her da had never quite come out and said (he hadn't needed to) was the choice of weaklings and fools.

The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.

I suppose it doesn't matter much. A lot of things don't matter, but it doesn't keep a man from wondering about them, I've noticed.