Quotes About Uncertainty

You're going to lose your life anyway. It may be now. It may be decades from now. But at some point it's going to happen, and you have no idea when or how. So it's important to be true to yourself at every moment.

Our knowledge is always incomplete, and our brains always misinterpret so much, that the only thing we can truly trust is intuition.

After a second pint, I entered a pocket of time in which life seemed good, secure, not threatened by the past or "things to come." I knew I had been living on a kind of sine curve, a rolling wave of ups and downs, now hopeful now doomed, now asleep now insomniac, now cocksure now deeply uncertain. If such a roller coaster of moods and dispositions had taken its toll on me, I thought, imagine what it must have been like for

Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear.

Floating down a river named Emotion...will I make it back to shore, or drift into the unknown?

If this is right, I'd rather be wrong. If this is sight, I'd rather be blind.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.

I'm on the road of least resistance I'd rather give up than give in to this So promise me only one thing, would you? Just don't ever make me promises No promises

This could be her last day of her life.

How are you feeling?" Seth bounced the ball. "Fine. Weird. I don't know.

This just kept getting worse. Would there ever be good news?

But with you, I don't know what to trust.

Hi," Cole said. "I'm not sure why I'm here." "I know the feeling," the woman said wryly.

Seth, I'm about to lose it. Enough about going after the artifact. It's crazy. Can't you tell when an idea is doomed? Are you programmed to self-destruct?

Don't worry," Sidekick assured him. "You won't see any mold. It'll be dark.

Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

You can't be so frightened of what might happen that you are unwilling to act.

Aim for the sun. That way if you miss, at least your arrow will fall far away, and the person it kills will likely be someone you don't know.

Vin: I don't know -- and it's all your fault, you know. I used to understand everything. Now it's all confused. Kelsier: Yes, we've messed you up right properly.

Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

Storms, woman," [Kaladin] said. "I don't know what to make of you." "Preferably not a corpse." "I'm surprised someone hasn't already done that.

Sometimes, the answers we need don't match the questions we're asking." He looked up at me. "And sometimes, the coward makes fools of wiser men.