Quotes About Uncertainty

The only certainty is that we shall never be certain.

Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them.

That was horrifying. Fear had blinded me to this but the situation had changed. What if I were found out? Exposed. Prosecuted. Disbarred. My life would crumble. I would have no job, my prospects would be dismal, and it was impossible to know how Spaulding would react. And the only person whose opinion mattered, the only one, was Spaulding.

Life here is a gamble in which when you win, you lose. Be content, that's how you beat the game. This world is like a pair of dice, the only reason you pick them up is to throw them down!

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

You can hope all you want for a happy ending, but sometimes, like it or not, the guy writing your story is working on a tragedy; you may not even be the main character.

So desperate was Kugel for things to turn out for the best, proclaimed Professor Jove, that he couldn't stop worrying about the worst. Hope, said Professor Jove, was Solomon Kugel's greatest failing.

She had been trying hourly to ensure that this new friendship remained such, to be certain that it would not slip out of the careful grasp of her fingers and into the darker champers of her heart.

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He felt beyond himself. He felt for the first time in his adult life a shadow of fear in his heart--fear for her, for what he actually wanted from her--and for himself, for what he might do.

This one hopez you know what you are doing. Not really. But it's uncertainty that makes life so interesting don't you think Saba Jacen

Second, not all thoughts about the future are created equal.

I can type with me toes Suck stout through me nose And where it's gonna end God only knows

I paused for a moment with the strangest feeling of reverse déjà vu. Instead of getting the sense that I'd seen something before, I felt like I hadn't seen it before, even though I knew I had.

I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.

She was not who she'd thought she was. No one was.

Um… I guess that's that," said Cerise. "That?" said Maddie. "That is never that. This is that. Or else that is this. And this is definitely not that. So let's go to the dance.

I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.

And this is where I'll end, before I know what happens next.

I don't know what you're talking about." "I feel the same way all the time!

Raven was asking Apple to give up all known paths forever after. To lose everything that was known and safe. To spend her entire life on unfamiliar paths and wind-beaten cliffs. Every day uncertain, dangerous, treading water in a well with no guarantee of a Happily Ever After.

Hope was as confusing as [Trecon = 5?TA2(L/12)3].

Perhaps I'm just afraid of the uncertainty to come. When I'm moving on a journey, the ending is still unknown and possibly wonderful. But once I arrive, it's hard to keep imagining.

How can you want to marry someone you've never met?" said Miri. "What if you meet him and do like