Uncertainty Quotes
Woody Allen
I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.
1389Gilda 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.
4575A.J. Darkholme
There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.
1504Evan 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.
3517Thomas 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
3560Aniekee Tochukwu
Let's create a new memory,where our futures will fall back for strength
4109Robert 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.
1534Tony 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.
2860Alice Hoffman
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
2385Douglas Adams
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
1661Banana 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.
3904Toba Beta
Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck
3976Mandy 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.
1162Ron 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.
3821Lionel Suggs
People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.
3746Mark 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.
3049Carrie Ryan
the living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.
3623Marsilio 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.
2796Paula 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
4144Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is uncertain.
Lord grant us gracious courage to face the uncertainty of life.
2121Carla 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.
4838Carla H. Krueger
Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.
1453Carla H. Krueger
At first, I didn’t understand. Understanding came very slowly.
1627Carla H. Krueger
I need a new trick if I am to walk without legs, see without eyes or speak without words.
2687Carla 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.
1828Carla 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.
2260Carla 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.
2940Carla H. Krueger
Right now, in this dusty anti-paradise, I have absolutely no hand in the future at all.
2344Carla 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.
3202Carla H. Krueger
A thick rivulet of lost blood reflects a city that will mourn but never die.
4462Carla 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.
4171Carla H. Krueger
Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling.
4029Carlo Rovelli
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt.
2008Toba 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.
1576Deepak 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.
3981Diana 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.
1513Michael 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.
1903Vladislav Krapivin
...в самой глубине души у Корнелия жило опасливое понимание, что эта бодрость, этот счаст%D
1849Kaoru 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.
4674Aberjhani
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.
3616A.J. Darkholme
In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.
2157Carla 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.
3742A. Dragonblood
We react to fear when we are uncertain of the outcome, we respond to fear when we don't care about the outcome.
3572Mandy Hale
Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.
2045Amélie Nothomb
Nunca podré expresar el impacto que experimenté al abrir la puerta: era arrancar tu propia tumba para desembocar en el misterio.
4274Rabih 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?
3430John-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.
4360Ian Fleming
History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
3673Sylvia 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.
4162Earl Lovelace
I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally.
2703Vironika 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.
2836Katie 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.
2650Diana 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.
2767Gino Norris
In a world of increasing uncertainty, expect...
2790Dannika 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.
4579Nikos 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.
4296Unknown 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.
2215Malti Bhojwani
Grow or Die - Don’t let your fear of uncertainty keep you from achieving your dreams, it is far riskier to stagnate.
2558Mohsin Hamid
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
1460Johnny Rich
The future is certain. It is just not known.
1088Auliq 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.
3587Craig 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.
1537Alison 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.
4167Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?
1985Nichole 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.
4443Jhumpa Lahiri
A woman who had fallen out of love with her life
4092C.S. Lewis
Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.
1980Christopher 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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