155 quotes found
“Sometimes I like to think I live with ghosts. Not from my past, but wispy bits of ideas and books that hang in the air like silk puppets. Sometimes I think I see my own ideas, floating around too, ...”
“Love isn't really all that terrifying once you let go of your doubts.”
“The word maybe was beginning to annoy me, because the only thing that was fixed was that maybe would be with me forever.”
“Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.”
“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.”
“If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar.”
“To be absolutely certain about something one must know everything or nothing about it.”
“Nothing perhaps is strange once you have accepted life itself the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.”
“Our lives are never certain even for an hour.”
“We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.”
“Throughout this life you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.”
“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 ...”
“Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight.”
“There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.”
“The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.”
“There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.”
“No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.”
“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.”
“I'm often wrong but never in doubt.”
“We are not certain we are never certain.”
