Quotes About Uncertainty

live your life as if you may lose everything.

The changes are coming fast and blind now, and in your skull sits an hourglass with a grain size hole through which numb seconds are sliding.

The American religion-so far as there is one anymore-seems to be doubt. Whoever believes the least wins, because he'll never be found wrong.

The American religion—so far as there is one anymore—seems to be doubt. Whoever believes the least wins, because he'll never be found wrong.

He wants out, Annajane thought. He does not want to marry this woman.

I wish I could show you the little village where I was born. It's so lovely there...I used to think it too small to spend a life in, but now I'm not so sure.

way." The giant scratched his head and looked doubtful.

He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

When When it's over, it's over, and we don't know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think, in my whole life, I have never missed The full moon or the slipper of its coming back. Or, a kiss. Well, yes, especially a kiss.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.

No, I'd never been to this country before. No, I didn't know where the roads would lead me. No, I didn't intend to turn back.

What kind of life is it always to plan and do, to promise and finish, to wish for the near and the safe? Yes, by the heavens, if I wanted a boat I would want a boat I couldn't steer.

A Voice from I Don't Know Where

Education as I knew it was made up of such a preestablished collection of certainties. Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.

The whole business of what's reality and what isn't has never been solved and probably never will be. So I don't care to be too definite about anything. I have a lot of edges called Perhaps and almost nothing you can call Certainty.

So maybe it was the right way after all. If this was lost, let us all be lost always.

What is certain in the rational realm is by no means certain in the kingdom of swoon.

I want the poem to ask something and, at its best moments, I want the question to remain unanswered.

What we must do, I suppose, is to hope the world keeps its balance; what we are to do, however, with our hearts waiting and watching-truly I do not know.

I have a lot of edges called Perhaps and almost nothing you can call Certainty.