Quotes about Uncertainty

Everyone is wrong about the future.

We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our precious lives nor perfect it in our lives to come

a man has a right to fear dangers that are less than likely to occur.

We can never know what to want, because, only living one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor the perfect it in our lives to come.

Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions.

Frequent mists swirling across the countryside drifted between me and the populated land, so that the world was as it was on the fifth day of creation, when God was still undecided whether he should hand it over to Man.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lived to come.

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

Meanwhile I'll probably see him again. That's how sick I am.

He still went out nearly every night. I thought, is this what he's going to do when we have the baby? Have I made another terrible mistake with a man? You don't really know a man until you have a child with him. Then you see so much. Is he kind? Is he tolerant? Is he loving? Or is he immature and egotistical and selfish? When you have a child, it can go two ways with your husband: You love him even more, or you lose all respect for him. And if you lose respect, there's no way to get it back...

On the other hand, it seemed to be working. For Samantha, anyway. And in comparison, my own relationship with Bernard was sorely lacking. Not only in sex, but in the simple fact that I still wasn't sure I was ever going to see him again. I guess the best thing about living with a guy is that you know you're going to see him again. I mean, he has to come home at some point, right?