Quotes About Uncertainty

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.

One of these days, you're going to fall in love with some guy, and you're not going to know what to do with yourself.

Don't you ever worry about the future?" I asked. Jack shrugged. "This is the future," he said.

the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don't know anything about them at all.

When you're younger you just take it as a given that things will fall into place on their own. Relationships, family, careers, the whole deal. They might not come as you picture them, but they come in some form. You just never figure that they might not come at all. And then you hit thirty and...shit! You suddenly realize that they're not necessarily coming and you panic.

It's okay, Douglas." "It's not okay." "It's life, that's all. 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.

It's hard to know where to start. Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts. All you can ever really know is that it's wrapped around you, sometimes a little tighter than you'd like. But clearly there have been some mistakes. Bad ones. You can tell that just by looking at him.

When I first met you …" "When I first met you I thought about asking you out." "So why didn't you?" "It's complicated." "People always say that, but it never really is." "That's probably true.

You OK?" she says, raising her eyebrows. "You're teetering." He nods and steadies himself against the wall. "Aren't we all," he says.

We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.

I'm living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.

You come into this world, not knowing who you are, and sometimes, if you live long enough, you go out not knowing who you are.

True wisdom is found in trusting God when you can't figure things out.

Imagine, more precisely, that you are so afraid that you will not allow yourself even to know what you want. Knowing would simultaneously mean hoping, and your hopes have been dashed. You have your reasons for maintaining your ignorance. You are afraid, perhaps, that there is nothing worth wanting;

If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you're constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.

Set your ambitions, even if you are uncertain about what they should be. The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power.

When you move, everything is up in the air, at least for a while. It's stressful, but in the chaos there are new possibilities. People, including you, can't hem you in with their old notions. You get shaken out of your ruts

An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it.

What do we see when we don't know what we're looking at?

What is known and what is unknown is always relative because what is unexpected depends entirely upon what we expect (desire)-- on what we had previously planned and presumed. The unexpected constantly occurs because it is impossible, in the absence of omniscience, to formulate an entirely accurate model of what actually is happening or of what should happen.

When you move, everything is up in the air, at least for a while. It's stressful, but in the chaos there are new possibilities.