Quotes About Uncertainty

Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart's curtain?

Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

Now is the time when mercy is being extended to the world, but this time will come to an end and the Lord will return in glory to judge the living and the dead. Whether or not we are alive at the Lord's return, we need to be ready to meet Him at any moment. No one knows the day or the hour, not only of the Lord's return, but of the length of our own lives.

If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.

You can never predict when that unknown torpedo will come out of the dark and smash the price of a stock.

that plane isn't going to make it

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand....

But inflation or deflation can be forecast to some extent. The real risks are those that lie hidden beneath the veneer of "business as usual.

The heart hoped that India would survive, but the head worried that it wouldn't. The place was too complicated, too confusing – a nation, one might say, that was unnatural. In truth, ever since the country

Of all the species that god created, man remains the most fragile and certainly uncertain, thanks to his histrionic nature!

Perfect love happens not when you're ready but when you least expect, at the most imperfect moment under unpredictable circumstances! Expect Not, Trust Existence!

Only a fool is always certain,

When he shut himself in his apartment he found that he hoped he was waiting for nothing at all.

As soon as Todd drove off the motorway it vanished from the mirror, and so did the sun across the moor.

Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different way.

I've never done grey before, but I suspect it's one of those things that, tried once, you can never resile from.

It's so much easier to live in a world where everything is black and white. I've never done grey before, but I suspect it's one of those things that, tried once, you can never go back.

Before Mina, my life was like a complicated jigsaw puzzle. Mina's come along and pushed the puzzle upside down onto the floor. I have to start all over again, figuring out where the pieces go. But some of the pieces to the puzzle don't seem to fit the way they used to. The thought terrifies me.