Quotes About Uncertainty

miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to...

The lie had worked so far, but Lacey felt its softness, like a floor of rotten boards beneath her feet.

Strange how one minute life was a certain way and then it was another, and you couldn't remember what you'd done to make it all happen.

Don't be afraid to ask if you're on the right train.

You are Entering the Red Zone. Proceed at Own Risk. When in Doubt Run.

Too many what-ifs are just a way to keep yourself up at night, and there's not enough decent sleep to go around.

When he decided they weren't police, he realized he'd been thinking maybe they were.

We're just people. I don't know what's up that mountain, but I do know that much. We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

She did not believe in fate; the world seemed far chancier than that, a series of mishaps and narrow escapes you somehow managed to survive until, one day, you didn't.

Who would survive this day? And Vorhees knew, to his infinite sorrow, that once again he would be one of the lucky ones. They

Whoever thinks so doesn't understand the first thing about him. He went out there because he just couldn't stand not knowing, not for one more minute of his life.

She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, Maybe I didn't. There was a house, and then no house. There were trees, but none remain. When no one remembers, what is there? You, whose moments are gone, who drift like smoke in the afterlife, tell me something, tell me anything. -Mark Strand, "In the Afterlife

Maybe. Maybe I'm just talking out of my exhaust pipe, and it wouldn't be the first time.

It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

The ride is far from over.

Its melancholy epigraph came from the Greek poet Constantin Cavafy, as translated by Phil Andros: Now and again he swears To commence a cleaner life, But when the night comes With its dark promptings, Its uncertainties and its enterprises When the night comes With its own dominion Over the body, he returns, lusting and searching, Lost, to that same morose delight.*

A pathfinder's job is hard enough — blazing trails where there are none, guided by nothing but hearsay and gut. While you're hacking your way through bracken, worrying about lurking beasts, all you can do is hope you had chosen the right direction.

Sometimes...I'd lie awake in the dark, right before dawn, and wonder if I'd ever be glad to see morning again. If I'd ever really come out on the other side.

Expect the best, but prepare for the worst.' I'm good at the first part, crap at the second.

Expectation is the worst emotional disturbance. What will happen will happen, what won't happen, won't.

Time steals from us the capacity to be smitten, does it not? It slowly but surely washes away all your enthusiasm and deposits uncertainty in its place.

I'm starting to get the enemy and the auditors muddled up in my mind. I'm terrified of both of them, but the auditors know where I live.

Still, it was better than sitting around playing cards waiting to have your throat cut.