#Uncertainty Quotes

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.”

“O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.”

“My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.”

“To saucy doubts and fears.”

“Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy.”

“Life's uncertain voyage.”

“But since the affairs of men rests still incertain,Let's reason with the worst that may befall.”

“The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.”

“The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.”

“'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.”

“We cannot build our lives around what might happen tomorrow.”

“Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.”

“Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.”

“It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.”

“In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.”

“In baseball, you don't know nothin'.”

“Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.”

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

“We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.”

“The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.”

“Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?”

“Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?--startling, unexpected, unknown?”

“Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. 'Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.' Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot begin it too soon.”

“... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.”

“Life is a series of surprises.”

“If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to being hopeless, though: only the spectacle is a profoundly strange one; and as the current answers don’t do, one has to grope for a new one, and the process of discarding the old, when one is by no means certain what to put in their place, is a sad one.”

“He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.”

“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”

“Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.”

“It is in the realm of uncertainty, that your passion is found.”

“The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?”

“The more you know, the less sure you are.”

“I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.”

“Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life.”

“The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?”

“There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard.”

“Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go”

“His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.”

“Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.”

“The quality of your life is directly related to how much uncertainty you can comfortably handle.”

“I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?”

“[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.”

“We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.”

“Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.”

“I don't really know that much about love, it turns out.”

“I've come to a wonderful realization that is fascinating: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does!”

“Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system.”

“Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.”

“To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.”

“To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?”