Quotes About Uncertainty

The world is certainty a sudden place.

Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want—I want—I want—was all that she could think about—but just what this real want was she did not know. After

She was afraid because in the war they would not include her, and because the world seemed somehow separate from herself.

Yet at the same time you almost might use the word loose instead of caught. Although they are two opposite words.

Ninguno de ellos sabía por qué estaban allí o lo que harían, pero sabían que tenían que esperar, y que la hora se acercaba

Zia didn't trust materials. Or rather, he trusted them to fail. Superconductors, carbon composite, silicon, the human body. Problem was, you never knew just how or when...

We know hardly anything about anything.

Once a man admitted his feelings to a woman, it either drew them together or wedged them apart.

I'm all mixed up inside. It's like—I don't know—like an ignition of some kind. one minute, I'm fine, and the next I'm losing it.

Why look to far ahead, when there was nothing to see but dark clouds?

When you don't know enough about life to know what you might have missed out on, your imagination plays wicked tricks on you.

chances given, chances not given, chances taken, chances lost. How are you supposed to know which to give, which not?

La vie n'est pas une boîte de chocolats où je peux choisir celui que je préfère ; ou alors, quelqu'un l'a remplacé pendant que j'avais le dos tourné.

Leah's baby was nestled protectively in the crook of Devon's arm. In the golden firelight, his expression appeared grim. The neck of his shirt was open, the sleeves rolled up. With a soft gasp of mother love, Leah reached for her child. But Devon's deep, silky voice stopped her. "Who is the baby's father? And do you love him?" She froze. Her mouth went dry. Her heart pounded in her chest. He waited.

And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn't know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn't quite know it all so much then.

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

Well isn't that one thing you're all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what's going on

The first day of the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don't feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn't bothered.

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

Nobody else around me seems to be looking around and wondering what to do. Why is it that I feel like I'm the only person who is confused and concerned about the choices I've made and where I'm headed? Everywhere I look, I see people just getting on with it.