Quotes About Uncertainty

Beyond that was all uncertainty, the way life almost always is. It would remain a story without end, like a suspended chord in the last measure of a song—that singular, dissonant, open sound that makes you ache to hear something more.

He hovered between what he didn't want anymore and what he wasn't very likely to have.

To enter a relationship for the long term is to enter the space of not knowing. While this is so brave and beautiful, exhilarating even, it is not particularly comfortable.

The bad news is, you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there is no ground. Chögyam Trungpa

Although my life was filled with chaos, it was familiar chaos, which gave me the feeling that I had some control over it. This was an illusion. —ANONYMOUS

This must be what dying is like. She tried wiggling a bony finger to attract Rhiannon. She wanted to ask her: is this what it was like?

Day by day we are summoned beyond a safe theological "knowledge of description" to one of unpredictable "acquaintance.

Her advice boiled down to a consistent theme: that we all have to learn how to live with uncertainty, because some things are simply out of our control.

Our country feels as if it has gathered itself at a cliff and is studying the long scree of loose rock, deciding whether to slide down and descend completely again into open hatred.

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life--that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

The trigger for Eden's anaphylactic reaction that day was never identified.

You always look on the dark side of life. I believe in capturing the moment...Joy is so fleeting. You never know when it might be snatched away.

if we are aiming to be genuinely self-reliant, we must learn to embrace uncertainty and anxiety. If we fail, there will be nothing to break our fall—nothing but whatever cushion we have managed to create for ourselves.

Sometimes destiny switches the cards on you so that while you're busy escaping from the dog, you find yourself facing the wolf

We don't always get to choose.

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

He was anxious to go, reluctant to go. Ready to go.

That's not what I meant." "What?" "I want to know what you did with her." He looked at me. "Why?" he asked at last. "I don't know. So I can imagine it. So I can sleep." He started to speak, then stopped himself. Then he began again.

I wondered if I was afraid of him, after all.

There's something I know but I don't know it yet. It's driving me nuts.

I don't know where I am. My mind races. I feel like if I started to run, I'd never stop.

Well. I don't know where to start. What to say. What to think.

Things have been happening so quickly that I haven't been able to think them through. Which always makes me a little nervous. Not that anything like this has ever happened to me before.