Quotes About Uncertainty

Many of us have had our illusions about security and permanency shattered. The longer we're alive, the more it gets beat into us: nothing is forever.

In spite of the range of needs and wants that go unmet when we don't love, it may feel safer to not love. We don't risk the uncertainty and vulnerability of closeness. We don't risk the pain of loving, and for many of us love has caused a great deal of pain.

When we don't get close to people, at least we know what to expect: nothing.

So, there you have it, you get up and go to school, thinking it's just another ordinary day and the next thing you know, something totally unexpected happens! Life's like that. I guess it's like Forrest Gump said about the box of chocolates-you just never know what you're going to get!

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said. Yeah, Eugens said shakily. '...Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity.

Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.

No one runs from anything quite like they run from change.:

Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. Safe, true, but how boring! How confining! How sad! How could that compare with this? And what is safe? You were not safe on your little farm. War came to you and took all your safety away! If I am to be in this world, I want more than to be a hound upon the game board, tucked away in a corner until the jackals come and sweep all away!

Well," Clarice said, once the pirates were safely out of earshot. "Nobody shot us." "Yet," Dominick answered.

Suddenly my palms were damp and I was more nervous than I'd been facing down that Mage. After all, the only thing he could do was kill me horribly. These people…they could make me look stupid.

But no one can truly know how the game will play before the stones are laid upon the board

You just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.

How merciful a thing is man's ignorance of his immediate future! What a ghastly, paralysing thing it would have been if all those present could have known what was about to happen within a matter of seconds! For nothing short of pre-knowledge could have stopped the occurrence, so suddenly it sprang upon them.

who can tell in which direction the minds of phantoms move?)

I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.

She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.

I've been asleep and I don't know if it's the same day or week or year, but who the hell cares anyway?

The overall impact of postmodernism is that many other groups now share with black folks a sense of deep alienation, despair, uncertainty, loss of sense of grounding even if it is not informed by shared circumstance.

In everyday life males and females alike are relatively silent about love. Our silence shields us from uncertainty. We want to know love. We are simply afraid the desire to know too much about love will lead us closer and closer to the abyss of lovelessness.

God has an overall plan for people's lives and the details get worked out along the way, even though we usually have no idea what's going on.

Benjamin again: "Gambling converts time into a narcotic.")

Yesterday's panicked fears are today's sober expectations.