Quotes About Uncertainty

Possibile che debba finire così? Saltuariamente - si sarà notato - accade di pensare: possibile che debba finire così? Io, di mio, era un po' che non lo pensavo. Avevo smesso di interrogarmi. Si scivola giù, senza accorgersi di molto, assordati dal dolore, ed è tutto.

vicissitudes

the world is ever so slightly but uncorrectably out of focus, that there are no absolutely precise answers. Whatever

I had a theology professor once," I said to John, "who told us that religion was not about being certain but about living with uncertainty. It was about being comfortable with doubt, and maintaining the continuity of one's reverence for a profound mystery.

the skill of staying poised in worrying times. To survive what's headed our way—global climate disruption, a new pandemic, additional authoritarian governments—and to endure, we will have to stretch our imaginations. We will need to trust each other, because today, it's as if every safe place has melted into the sameness of water. We are searching for the boats we forgot to build.

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

For how can this be? How can it be? That from all the Ridgefield Parks of our time we will assemble to build the great engines which will take us to the stars... and some of the stars will bring death and others will bring life and then there are those which will bring us nothing at all, but the engines will continue, they will go on forever. And so, in a fashion, after our fashion, will we.

The mistake is to assume that the way it feels at the moment is the way it will feel forever.

We are free to be the authors of our own lives, but we don't know what kind of lives we want to 'write.

The discrepancy between logic and memory suggests that we don't always know what we want.

This is postdecision regret, regret that occurs after we've experienced the results of a decision. But there is also something called anticipated regret, which rears its head even before a decision is made.

If people err systematically and substantially in making those predictions, it's likely that they will make some bad decisions—decisions that produce regret, even when events turn out well.

people tend to avoid taking risks—they are "risk averse"—when they are deciding among potential gains, potential positive outcomes.

I am shifting rivermist, not to be trusted.

That morning he had awakened next to his wife, and had eaten breakfast across from his son. They talked about stuff, like people do. We never know. Any day could be the day we go down, and we never know.

I don't think anybody can ever be a hundred percent sure of anything in this wicked world, but I wanted to get up to ninety-eight.

We turn from all we know and all we fear.

I wish I had looked longer, but I don't blame myself. You never know where the trapdoors are in your life, do you?

God doesn't have a plan, He throws pickup sticks.

But eventually, something will happen. Something always does. And when it does... I will come to Mother.

They stood on the porch in the fading light, Jack in the middle, his left arm around Danny's shoulders and his right arm around Wendy's waist. Together they watched as the decision was taken out of their hands.

Coincidence has been cancelled, honey," Susannah said. "What we're living in these days is more like the Charles Dickens version of reality.

There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.

God says, Sure, take away the safety net. And when that's gone, take away the tight rope too.