Quotes About Uncertainty

Falling for him was too easy. Falling in general was easy. It was the landing you had to watch out for.

Here's what will happen to the dog," he said with exaggerated patience. "She'll be our pet for however long she's meant to be our pet. Nobody knows how long that's going to be.

Things happen as they are meant to happen. There is no grand plan, just flawed human beings bumbling through life.

But life had a way of interfering with one's plans. Things popped up unexpectedly, and suddenly a carefully plotted route had to be recalculated.

Jeez, Uncle Sean—" "Jeez

With your family - with your whole life, really - you don't get to have a control group. You don't have any way of knowing how things would have turned out if you'd done something differently, made another choice, followed a different path.

Life as it reveals itself is filled with riches. What will happen, will happen. Worrying will not affect the outcome.

maffle confused. Reet maffled me. It confused me greatly.

But I was too many things, and wanted too many things, and could never decide which ones might (if I would pay them the proper attention) be most important.

the trouble with my life was that it had no strong central storyline—at least, certainly not a conventional one, with love and marriage as its main theme. Just when I thought I'd found something to hold on to, the plot was altered by events I couldn't control.

We buy insurance because we're scared we'll lose what we've got. Why are we scared? Because the insurance companies keep reminding us how much we've got to lose. Then, when you've got a claim, they send somebody out to tell you why they can't pay.

There was no one there. Which is to say there was someone there. Miss Wintertowne lay upon the bed, but it would have puzzled philosophy to say now whether she were someone or no one at all.

Could soldiers read? Mr Norrell did not know. He turned with a look of desperate appeal to Childermass. Childermass shrugged.

One of them is married and another is engaged and the third cannot make up her mind.

truth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me: you say it wearies you; But how I got it--came by it.

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

then what would I do?' She was getting herself into quite a

at him. 'What could be wrong?' Not knowing how to answer, she turned the question back to

God knows, it ain't

She knew what she looked like - someone at the edge of catastrophe, someone already flinching from a blow that had not yet been delivered.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

I've been given an amazing opportunity and I could not be more grateful. But I also know that all this will eventually die off. It's not real. It will go away and then you'll go away and then, I don't know, I'll be left sitting in some English hotel room.