Quotes About Uncertainty

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain

He knew how little it took to make a man into meat: the wrong blow, the wrong gunshot, the wrong flick of a blade, turn of a car, presence of a microorganism in a handshake, a cough. He was aware that alone a person is almost nothing.

They knew there was a possibility the agent had sold them out to the militants, and so they knew there was a possibility this was the final afternoon of their lives.

he said when his mother was dying he had been certain she would not die, certain until he was not certain, and when he finally knew she was dying, was not sick but dying, he saw how much she wanted to live, until the pain took that from her, and she wanted to go, or did not want to go, but needed to go, needed to go even more than she wanted to stay, and he had not been ready for that, for his mother to need to leave, and it was a terrible thing to see.

the meaning clear, but the judgment suspended, and left the matter at that.

In Pakistan, my friends and family are frightened, as they should be when the

and inside it were Nadia and Saeed, who had run from war already, and did not know where next to run, and so were waiting, waiting, like so many others.

So what's the plan?' 'Why do people ask me that? Do I seem like a person who could make and then keep plans?

If she could leave him so easily, if it was as easy as that, then why did she ever begin it?

Because it shortens the odds against us," said Sandor. "It affords us the opportunity to take control. Because what we do not know controls us.

I have taken time away," said Ma, "now I am going back to your father. You see? Life is not simple. You do not know what will happen with Joe." "Okay, Ma." She wouldn't argue, because Ma had used her best stubborn voice.

there are three kinds of suspicion—a light suspicion, a serious suspicion, and a grave suspicion.

Que sçais-je? (What do I know?)

Les hommes, quelque beau visage que fortune leur fasse, ne se peuvent appeler heureux jusqu'à ce qu'on leur ai vu passer le dernier jour de leur vie, à cause de l'incertitude et de la variabilité des choses humaines qui d'un bien léger mouvement se changent d'un état en un autre tout divers

There is nothing certain but uncertainty, and nothing more miserable and arrogant than man.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too-even when you are in the dark. Even when you're falling.

But still, he reflected, I ought to wash my pajamas more often. Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed. --Tengo, IQ84

When in my present lonely lot, I feel my past has not been free From sins which I remember not, I dread more, what to come, may be.

New grass, you don't even know where to sprout and grow. How can I, a drop of dew, vanish away in the air leaving you alone?

You know, Sandy said, these are supposed to be the happiest days of our lives. Yes, they are always saying that, Jenny said. They say, make the most of your schooldays because you never know what lies ahead of you.

But you won't be able to pin her down on sex. Have you thought of politics?

Discernment includes seeing that even as we attempt to see our children for who they are, we also cannot fully know who they are or where their lives will take them. We can only love them, and accept them, and honor the mystery of their being.

In some respects, grief for the lost and missing is worse than grief for the dead, and sometimes just for a fraction of a second its intensity makes her wish Mikal would cease to exist, so she wouldn't have to wonder if she will ever see him again.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.