Uncertainty Quotes

Woody Allen

I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.

Gilda Radner

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.

A.J. Darkholme

There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.

Evan Meekins

Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.

Thomas Narofsky

We need leaders who can meet and adapt to new challenges, build strategic partnerships, build and sustain human capital organizations, and have the courage to act and react to the challenges

Aniekee Tochukwu

Let's create a new memory,where our futures will fall back for strength

Robert Fripp

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.

Tony Schwartz

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.

Alice Hoffman

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Douglas Adams

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

Banana Yoshimoto

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

Toba Beta

Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck

Mandy Hale

The more you go with the flow of life and surrender the outcome to God, and the less you seek constant clarity, the more you will find that fabulous things start to show up in your life.

Ron Rash

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

Lionel Suggs

People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.

Mark Batterson

Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation.

Carrie Ryan

the living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.

Marsilio Ficino

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Paula Hawkins

Who's to say that once I run, I'll find that isn't enough? Who's to say I won't end up feeling exactly the way I do right now-not safe, but stifled? Maybe I'll want to run again, and again, and eventually I'll end up back on those old tracks, because there's nowhere left to go. Maybe. Maybe not. You have to take the risk, don't you

Donald Barthelme

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is uncertain.
Lord grant us gracious courage to face the uncertainty of life.

Carla H. Krueger

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

Carla H. Krueger

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

Carla H. Krueger

At first, I didn’t understand. Understanding came very slowly.

Carla H. Krueger

I need a new trick if I am to walk without legs, see without eyes or speak without words.

Carla H. Krueger

It’s unpleasant magic, the kind that darkens the senses, the kind no one wants to experience, but once in a lifetime might not be able to avoid.

Carla H. Krueger

No trees, sky or ground. No other buildings or fields. No winding path, no brambles, no outhouse or pond or flowers, no sunshine or children playing. Just blackness.

Carla H. Krueger

Even though I knew, deep down, what she was trying to do, I couldn’t hate her. Even when she hurt me, I forgave her.

Carla H. Krueger

Right now, in this dusty anti-paradise, I have absolutely no hand in the future at all.

Carla H. Krueger

I have always hated lies; my own and everyone else’s.

Carla H. Krueger

I used to love lulling, running water – a sound so infrequent in cityscapes. Its loss always made me feel lonely when I lived amongst concrete.

Carla H. Krueger

Truth starts with a sense.

Carla H. Krueger

A thick rivulet of lost blood reflects a city that will mourn but never die.

Carla H. Krueger

Dwelling on the loneliness inherent in a city such as this when you dream of endless mountains and expanses of blue sky is a recipe for torment.

Carla H. Krueger

Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling.

Carlo Rovelli

The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt.

Toba Beta

If our future generations were much wilier than us,
then it might be them who have led us all this time,
to make decisions which fit to their pre-existence,
left us live in the world of uncertainty or by faith.

Deepak Chandra

Allowing people to contribute in your life is a leap of faith. And that comes gradually with self actualization and overcoming fears of uncertainty.

Khalid Masood

Time and uncertainty go hand in hand.

Diana Gabaldon

Here I stand on the brink of war again, a citizen of no place, no time, no country but my own . . . and that a land lapped by no sea but blood, bordered only by the outlines of a face long-loved.

Michael Bassey Johnson

It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying out of the corrosive fire. The coward is a trickster serpent, which vanishes in your time of despair, and appears in time of equanimity.

Vladislav Krapivin

...в самой глубине души у Корнелия жило опасливое понимание, что эта бодрость, этот счаст%D

Kaoru Kurimoto

A plague rides on the air here. The smell of rot! This is Doal's realm. Can't you feel it? The keep is doomed, don't you see? No, I will not pass through this gate. There is a disease in there I will not touch.

Aberjhani

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.

A.J. Darkholme

In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.

Carla H. Krueger

My spine spoke to me; I felt vulnerable, like he was gradually covering me in a heavy layer of gold without even having to touch me.

A. Dragonblood

We react to fear when we are uncertain of the outcome, we respond to fear when we don't care about the outcome.

Sherwood Smith

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

Mandy Hale

Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.

Amélie Nothomb

Nunca podré expresar el impacto que experimenté al abrir la puerta: era arrancar tu propia tumba para desembocar en el misterio.

Rabih Alameddine

Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is it less rousing if they don’t rattle your windows and nerves with indiscriminate sonic booms just because they can?

John-Talmage Mathis

Was I a fool to believe in fate or in some destined illusionary path? I don't know. But we all need something to believe in.

E.A. Bucchianeri

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith....

Ian Fleming

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Sylvia Plath

And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at all.

Earl Lovelace

I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally.

Vironika Tugaleva

It’s not enough to wish, dream, hope. Even children know this. We must set sail into the sea of uncertainty. We must meet fear face-to-face. We must take our dreams as maps for a greater journey. Dreams, to come true, need a good story. So go live one.

Katie Kiesler

There have been many many times where the uncertainty of life has made me want to force roots into the soil I'm currently standing on - because I'd rather have roots in any soil - than none at all. I hate living with unknowns.

Diana Rose Morcilla

I always liked the unknown. Ironically I familiarized myself with the uncertainty of life. Life can change in any minute of the day. God can turn anything around in a speck of a moment. I know for a fact that everything changes. Nothing stays the same. This too shall pass.

Gino Norris

In a world of increasing uncertainty, expect...

Dannika Dark

The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you’ll never succeed.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

Unknown Author

When the future is fogged and ahead lays opportunity but risk, it is better to tread a careful path through the uncertainty than to wait for the mist to clear, if it ever does.

Malti Bhojwani

Grow or Die - Don’t let your fear of uncertainty keep you from achieving your dreams, it is far riskier to stagnate.

Mohsin Hamid

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

Johnny Rich

The future is certain. It is just not known.

Auliq Ice

You can’t prepare for the details of every single possible thing that might come your way in the future, because the future is uncertain.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

And so, it is always the case that the past is irreparably land-locked, and the future has yet to land. And here we are, living out our lives on the precariously thin line which separates the two.

Alison Croggon

Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?

Nichole Beamer

Whenever that tiny bulb of revelation flashes over your head, it almost always follows a period of uncertainty. These periods are usually dark and distorted, with nary a sliver of light, yet they serve us because they contribute to understanding.

Alex Munoz

Creativity follows uncertainty

Jhumpa Lahiri

A woman who had fallen out of love with her life

C.S. Lewis

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.

Christopher Hitchens

What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

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