Quotes About Uncertainty

The future just isn't what it used to be

Relationships don't come with a warranty and being in love is no guarantee of a happy ending.

And no matter which way you turn your desperate gaze, there's absolutely no land in sight, which is strange, because you didn't think you'd gone out that far to begin with.

There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.

I'm tired of having a plan. I've been planning my whole life, and it isn't working. I just want to sit back and breathe for a minute, figure out who the hell I am.

I was as sure as I could humanly be, and still, I failed. So what do you think your chances are if you've already got serious doubts?

The self-help books and websites haven't come up with a proper title for spouses living in the purgatory that exists before the courts have officially ratified your personal tragedy.

That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon - and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it's suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you've had the right shots.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

The truth is you do not know what is going to happen tomorrow. "life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed. -Eminem

The truth is you do not know what is going to happen tomorrow. "ifr is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed. -Eminem

The truth is you do not know what is going to happen tomorrow. "if is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed. -Eminem

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their own hearts. They all straddle the border of Faerie, and they see into both worlds. Not dependably into either, perhaps, but that uncertainty keeps them honest and at a distance.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Nel caso di Romand il fatto più sconcertante è che la follia sia stata commessa in due tempi, come uno che mentre lavora al computer schiacci il tasto sbagliato, rischiando di perdere un file prezioso, e quando il programma chiede: «Sei sicuro di voler eliminare il documento?», dopo aver soppesato i pro e i contro, dia ugualmente l'ok.

Su suite la ilumina una bombilla de voltaje muy débil y tan acogedora como la cámara frigorífica de una carnicería. En otro tiempo podías estar seguro de que las paredes y el télefono estaban atiborrados de micrófonos, pero ahora ya no puedes tener la seguridad de nada.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Basta parlarci dieci minuti, con certi diciassettenni - con i ragazzi intendo, perché con le ragazze è un'altra storia, più complicata - e salta fuori subito che sono dei maledetti insicuri.

I felt like a guy in a cell being stared at longingly by a naked one-hundred-and-ten-kilo lifer. You know, sooner or later, that something unpleasant is going to happen to you. -The Ballad of the Low Lifes, by Enrico Remmert (2003), P. 20

La vida está llena de sorpresas y de protozoos del paludismo.

Cuando se ha perdido la brújula, lo inmediato es navegar a la deriva, no saber a qué atenerse en temas clave de la vida, lo que le conduce a la aceptación y canonización de todo.