Quotes About Uncertainty

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

I am still learning and experiencing things and feel like I cannot state a truth. So I guess one truth I know for sure is that I cannot state one. A paradox.

I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

Something lurked inside the truth.

The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

Here is the one truth you know for sure: there is no truth for sure.

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.