Quotes About Uncertainty

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

Hello?' M-Bot said. 'Spensa? Are you dead?' 'Maybe.' 'Oooh. Like the cat!' '...What?' 'I'm not sure, honestly,' M-Bot said. 'But logically, if you're speaking to me then possibility has collapsed in our favor. Hurray!

Sometimes, the answers we need don't match the questions we're asking.

I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile.

Yes, yes. 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.

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

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

I don't suppose you'd want to go destroy some evil, would you? the voice said. I'm not really sure what that means, to be honest. I'll just trust you to decide.

In a way, she'd rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust.

So, you're worried about what?" M-Bot said. "That your shadow might take your place?" "No," I whispered. "I worry that I'm already the shadow.

Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished.

Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.

Scared to go onward, but terrified to go back to what you were

It frightens me," Shallan said, "because we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes our perception. I don't see clearly. I want to, but I don't know if I ever truly can.

I can't ever come up with any logical reason why she would want to be with me. I just...have to trust her judgment.

She wasn't even certain she was Tress anymore, or if she'd become someone else. You could say, in other words, that her state at the moment was distress

Everything's going to change, Sazed, and I can't stop it." Sazed smiled fondly. "Then, Mistress," he said quietly, "simply enjoy what you have. The future will surprise you, I think.

What if everybody is frightened, and nobody has the answers?

Maybe I'm my own brand of wrong.

as he walked, he moved with more determination. If only because he knew there were things in the world he didn't understand—and that meant, perhaps, there were possibilities he didn't see. Possibilities for survival.

What else will we do?" I asked, turning to leave. "This is the only plan we have." "This isn't a plan," Prof said. "It's hormones.

Scared to go onward," Kaladin said, "but terrified to go back to what you were.

We can't know everything - and some of what we think we know is going to turn out to be false.

That didn't stop the world from ending, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.