Quotes About Uncertainty

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I've never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind. From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac .

I want to tell you I'm strong and resolute, but in truth, I feel afraid and alone and uncertain. I feel as if he has died, and I suppose in some way it's true. I'm left with nothing but this strange beating in my heart that tells me I'm meant to do something in this world. I cannot apologize for it, or for loving this small beating as much as him.

To know exactly where you're headed may be the best way to go astray. Not all who loiter are lost.

I wanted to know, and I didn't want to know. I was all hung up in limbo.

The night seemed like an inkblot I had to figure out.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it. I couldn't go on biding time like there was no end of it, no end to this summer.

Most people prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty."10

realize with horrifying certainty that Ann has fallen into the hole. I drop onto my knees and call into the blackness. I scream her name until the sound clots in my throat. I don't know what to do. Finally I search for a flashlight so I can see down into the opening.

A wave of fear passed through me. Our lives and fates left to men. This world, this God-forsaken world.

I realized it was conceivable that Ann and I both, in our own way, were experiencing a crisis, which according to its definition is: (1) a crucial stage or turning point, and (2) an unstable or precarious situation. At the very least

I didn't know to call it religion back then, didn't know Amen from what-when

What has happened to our ability to dwell in unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty?

To know exactly where you're headed may be the best way to go astray. Not all who loiter are lost.

I remember thinking: We've come to the split in the river. I felt, whether or not it was true, that my life would be decided now. It would rush one way or go the other.

I remember thinking: We've come to the split in the river. I felt, whether or not it was true, that my life would be decided now. It would rush one way or go the other.

Part of it was because I didn't know where this journey was taking me and I was scared, and part of it was due to the loss I was starting to feel inside

Don't fear; the baby will live or it will not. We must let life be life." No assurance, no platitude, no promise of God's mercy. Just a stark reminder that death was part of life. She offered me nothing but a way to accept whatever came—Let life be life. There was a quiet relinquishment in the words.

That's how it turned out in the end, but in the first months after my return from California, we experienced doubt and tension. I woke every day to uncertainty about my marriage.

It seemed like I was holding back a reservoir of doubt, pain, and disillusionment

God willing. How strangely that strikes me now.

When you're in the midst of initiation, when your "old" womanhood is dying away, you may think you'll be stuck in the dying place forever. You cannot see beyond it. It is hard to keep moving, to put one foot in front of the other, because they are always landing on some new and unfamiliar plot of ground, and half the time that place is a swamp. For weeks I'd been walking in swamps, feeling lost. I didn't know which way to go next.

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.