Quotes About Uncertainty

You know how sometimes after an afternoon nap you wake up with the shakes or anxiety? That's what happened to me. I couldn't remember who I was or where I was or what time of year it was or anything. All I knew was that I was. I felt so wide open, so vulnerable, like a great big field that's just been harvested.

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more.

Life is a bowl of chainsaws.

I have not felt her presence, as I had always believed I should if she should predecease me. Where is she? I am afraid for her, and for myself.

sometimes not knowing can be a lot worse than knowing—even if knowing proves to be very painful.

Sometimes, a society can see its end approaching from afar and still not be able to adapt, like the Maya; at other times, the curtain drops without warning and the show is over.

Carpe diem. ¿Quién sabe lo que nos traerá el mañana?

The question failure asks is: what don't we know that we don't know?

Time is a storm in which we are all lost

Nobody ever makes their plans as if they're going to die the next day.

The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that insecurity, and all wisdom will be yours.

This adult world has an insane quality to it. Everybody's going around pretending like they really know things, pretending like they know what's real and what's not, pretending they know what's right, pretending they know who's wrong, but actually nobody really knows. But this is something we're afraid of. We don't really want to admit that nobody really knows.

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....

Fear is incomplete knowledge

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

How can I go on living here and suspecting everybody ?

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

He's not dead. But I have a feeling he's bored. That's worse.