Quotes About Uncertainty

Of course if a person looked at his life from above, he could see the whole thing for what it was; he'd only feel lost while he was living it, when he still hadn't figured out that it was in fact a maze and that both the way in and the way out led to the same enormous empty place surrounding it. (From The Thin Place)

Had the Ellwood plan passed, perhaps her downward spiral into $2-a-day poverty, and her repeated spells of homelessness, could have been avoided. No one will ever know for sure.

So how do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? And the honest answer is this. You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience. —Jon Stewart humorist and talk show host

No one knows how to gamble and win, that's why they call it gambling.

In fact, the only people he let anywhere near him were his family and her. She wasn't quite certain she wanted to dissect the implications of that honor.

In the financial world, risk translates to uncertainty. It's measured by "standard deviation from the norm" -- in other words, it's measured by how much the returns swing up and down. Says King, "Most individuals measure risk as their chance of loss, but we measure risk by the variability of returns.

a monster. Morris was exposed and sitting smack in her path. No one really

There are times when all one can do is acknowledge the random futility of existing in this universe.

Mara, anything could kill any one of us, today, tomorrow. The Yuuzhan Vong could pull down one of Coruscant's moons, or we could fall out of a window. Life is risk." -Luke Skywalker

Ellen sue always pale, surveyed herself in the glass in her mother's room. She was pale - but brides are always pale, aren't they? She knew she loved Liam, they were right for each other, and yet -- and yet -- she was scared. She was going away from the city she loved and the people who loved her, with Liam, wh wasn't even related to her few months back.

ear that she doubted if they would be able to get this particular train when the doors opened and people began to descend.

But I don't know the

He says he had to go help someone in a desperate situation. Who, exactly, he refuses to say. He doesn't know when he's going to be back, but suggests we put off the wedding for a few days. The rotter! How dare he just zoom off and not tell me where he's going, or who he's going to help, or what exactly he's up to!" Yeah, how dare he go out and be all heroic and stuff when you want him here slobbering over your big boobs.

I know I will die in a car crash.

Or will she appear down below, a pale blinking girl in the dark lake of the parking lot?

Mystery is essential, they say. Mystery. Well, I was in one of those right now, and I couldn't say that I liked it very much.

I soon came to the point where I didn't know whether my smiling face was a lie or not. -Lavi

Even while you are in doubt, there will be an answer you will arrive to. Even while you are in pain, your happiness will be waiting.

In time I no longer knew whether my smile was genuine or an act. (Lavi Bookman)

It's... It's gross. Knowing there is something inside me that I don't understand. It's gross." - Allen Walker

Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.

Recognize that you don't know where you stand, and you will begin to watch where you put your feet. That's when a path appears.

All I trust is whistling in the dark. from section 3 of "Radiantly Indefensible," The American Poetry Review (vol. 49, no. 3, May/June 2020)

The whole world, as we're coming to understand, is quivering in its place.