Quotes About Uncertainty

Maybe she hadn't asked the right or enough questions because she hadn't wanted to know the answers.

Sadie was twenty-two when Ichigo was launched, and she hadn't figured out who she was in public yet. (She barely knew who she was in private.)

Promise me you'll always forgive me, and I promise I'll always forgive you." These, of course, are the kinds of vows young people feel comfortable making when they have no idea what life has in store for them.

How much of your life had been a roll of the big polyhedral die in the sky?

Life is very long, she thought, unless it is not.

Life is very long, unless it is not.

We can never know what else might have happened had other competitors been there. The Russian girls could have won, or they could have gotten jet-lagged and choked." Anna shrugged. "And this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It's the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.

The best part of this moment, he thought, is that everything is still possible.

We are not quite short stories. At

We had both heard worse. People were often the worst versions of themselves in the months leading up to a wedding. Occasionally, though, the worst version of someone was the actual version of someone, but it was difficult to know if one was in that situation until after the fact.

Promise me you'll always forgive me, and I'll promise I'll always forgive you." These, of course, are the kinds of vows young people feel comfortable making when they have no idea what life has in store for them.

Anticipating the worst doesn't provide insurance from the worst happening

Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

She asks why I like her. Might as well ask Why I breathe. Maybe tomorrow I won't Breathe or like her Anymore. Maybe tomorrow the tides Will stop. Maybe tomorrow will bring No more rainbows. Maybe tomorrow She will stop Asking useless questions.

You know, Young, this is as good as anything gets. I wonder if this is it? Is this the very best day I'll ever have? (122)

The future arches above us all like a giant question mark, looming or embracing by whims and turns.

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

What is the first thing young people ask about in job interviews today: What are the health benefits? When I asked a savvy focus group of New Yorkers in their mid-twenties, "How safe do you feel—about sex, money, relationships, marriage, street violence, job security?" The response was urgent and unanimous. "None of the above. Unsafe on all levels. At all times." And

Because the 40s, as writer Barbara Fried so succinctly captures them, are a time when it seems no matter what course one has pursued, "everything is turning gray, drying up or leaving home.

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.

Sometimes I felt like I would go insane not having the answers to such simple questions. Of course, it was always hardest during the night, then the darkness stole away any signs of hope.

Sometimes I felt like I would go insane not having the answers to such simple questions. Of course, it was always hardest during the night, when the darkness stole away any signs of hope.

He wanted me to believe in something. I believe in plenty of things, I thought with a bitter smile. I believed that I was going to die tomorrow.