Quotes about Uncertainty

I enjoy putting myself in situations where you are nervous, but you need to enjoy yourself also. I've done skydiving, bungee jumping. I quite like those sensations - when you feel a little bit nervous and you don't really know where you are going. It's a quite good sensation that I love. I like the speed; I like everything.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.

The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.

Part of me doesn't even know if we're together. I mean, we are-she likes me, and I want to run off to Mexico with her. So yeah, that's together, right? I guess I don't need a ring or anything.

He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: What is the use?

A torch-flame resembles the wisdom of cowards: it gives a poor light because it trembles.

Alas! What are all these lives driven willy-nilly? Where are they going? Why are they like this? He who knows the answer to that, sees the darkness as a whole. He is alone. His name is God.

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.

In that etymological light nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don't know what has become of you. My country is far away, and I don't know what is happening there.

Anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself.