Certainties In Life Quotes

#1. The only certainties in life are "time" and "change." The question you must ask yourself: is now the time to change?

Doug Pedersen

#2. Death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, as Mark Twain once said. Or was it Benjamin Franklin?

Stephen Leather

#3. The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

Mark Twain

#4. Love," he said, "is always a risk, isn't it? I've always thought that there were no certainties in life, but I was wrong. Love is a certainty. And love always gives more than it takes.

Patricia Briggs

#5. One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.

Willy Russell

#6. Xander, there are two certainties in life--death and truth. They will both pursue you to your grave. There is no escaping them. But we run from them anyway in hopes that somehow we can slip by unnoticed. In the end, one or both of them catch up. Running doesn't solve anything.

A.C. Williams

#7. I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Bethenny Frankel

#8. The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion ...

Margaret Deland

#9. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon

#10. Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting.

Greg Rucka

#11. While all the future, for thy purer soul,
With "sober certainties" of love is blest.

William Wordsworth

#12. To feel one's ties to a land, one's love for certain men, to know there is always a place where the heart can find rest - these are already many certainties for one man's life

Albert Camus

#13. Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.
Right and wrong, however, are for - well, not unhappy people, maybe, but scarred people; scared people.

Hanya Yanagihara

#14. And in life, at least in her new life, chances were the best she could hope for. They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties.

Veronica Rossi

#15. There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are "like" someone in love sounds right.

Abbas Kiarostami

#16. The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#17. Of course, being angry is pointless. Unproductive. They don't understand yet. That they are all waiting for that one phone call that will change everything. That every one of them will feel like me eventually. Because someone they love will die. It's one of life's cruel certainties.

Cynthia Hand

#18. of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object - or will be.

James Anderson

#19. Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!

Peter Tork

#20. You know you're hearing from God when you don't walk away with facts but you walk away with faith.

Carl Lentz

#21. When the big things in our life start changing, we rely more heavily on small certainties to make us feel secure.

Kate Kerrigan

#22. I don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool.

Tony Windsor

#23. Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God

Sunday Adelaja

#24. I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

John Green

#25. There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.

T.L. Rese

#26. We do naught but scratch the world, frail and fraught. Every vast drama of civilizations, of peoples with their certainties and gestures, means nothing, affects nothing. Life crawls on, ever on.

Steven Erikson

#27. When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.

Philippe Petit

#28. Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing absurdity.

Vaclav Havel

#29. I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.

Nick Wechsler

#30. Valued. Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities. Right

Hanya Yanagihara

#31. Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are descending into decadence. We will be able to triumph over terrorism not by waging war on it, but through a conscious, fearless way of life.

Salman Rushdie

#32. Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death.
("Hard Candy")

Tennessee Williams

#33. And in life, at least her new life, chances were the best she could hope for. They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, WERE life.

Veronica Rossi

#34. To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views.

Joe Elliott

#35. Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties ... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#36. In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.

Milan Kundera

#37. One way or another, we need to understand that broadband is essentially telephone service, and just as we got to telephone service in the United States to one hundred per cent, we need to do it for broadband.

Julius Genachowski

#38. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

George Meredith

#39. I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.

Fernando Pessoa