Top 100 Quotes About Uncertain Life
#1. Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free ... It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators ... What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
Scarlett Thomas
#2. My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That's pretty much the central theme running through my work. It's about people's awareness of how uncertain life can be and their trying to guard against that.
David Morrell
#3. When you embrace the uncertain, life opens up unusual new paths. Seeds sown way back bloom as flowers, in ways one can never fathom.
Subroto Bagchi
#4. Best to take one day at a time in this uncertain life and be grateful for those days that treat you well.
C.S. Quinn
#5. What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
Euripides
#6. You can't hide from certain death, so you shouldn't hide from uncertain life.
Megan McCafferty
#7. The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.
Mayank Sharma
#8. when the uncertainty is known, certainty is guaranteed. Until we unravel the uncertainties of our lives, we shall always be uncertain with the life we live
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#9. We talk as if living a sanctified life were the most uncertain and insecure thing we could do. Yet it is the most secure thing possible, because it has Almighty God in and behind it. The most dangerous and unsure thing is to try to live without God.
Oswald Chambers
#10. Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Marcus Aurelius
#11. Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you'll find something that is.
A.J. Darkholme
#12. When you are in your twenties, if even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become.
Julian Barnes
#13. Only the stupid conquer in life; the other man foresees
too many obstacles and becomes uncertain before he starts.
Erich Maria Remarque
#14. When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.
Plutarch
#15. Many of the gifts life has to teach us live not in the realm of the certain, but in the uncertain.
Lissa Rankin
#16. Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
Samuel Johnson
#17. Let certain things be uncertain.
Appreciate the puzzle that life is,
insofar as I know, after a scheme of steps,
all Crosswords have a solution,
and every Sudoku makes a lot of sense.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#18. She couldn't hide from everyone for the rest of her life ... Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.
Ann Brashares
#19. The three Great Lights will guide our steps Through life's uncertain way, And bring us safe at length to see The bright eternal day.' -Anon
Jonti Marks
#20. As hope and fear alternate chase
Our course through life's uncertain race.
Walter Scott
#21. Nowists are more likely to experience joy because they embrace the uncertainty of existence. They are switched on by the uncertain stuff of human life and come alive when faced with life at its most uncontrollable.
Max McKeown
#22. However, at 17 years old, I was ready to face any challenge and tackle any obstacles blocking the road to my dreams. I was ready to take on the world. I was unstoppable. Bygones were bygones. The future, however uncertain it might be, awaited me.
Teodor Flonta
#23. His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain.
Ernest Jones
#24. If you are uncertain or in confusion don't take any decisions. If you feel you can do something just feel it and do it.
you cannot justify your actions that you do for others when you are unstable.
People will feel for something all the time and you cannot make them happy anyway...
Giridhar Alwar
#25. Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.
John Lahr
#26. The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.
Phillips Brooks
#27. The law is that you
must live
in the house you have built.
The law is absurd: it is
written down nowhere.
You are uncertain what crime
is, though each life writhing to
elude what it has made
feels like punishment.
Frank Bidart
#28. Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#29. We live in a very uncertain world, and I think that uncertainty of itself generates an environment which we should not make a decision that deprives future generations of the deterrent effect that the nuclear weapons have provided for us and for almost all of my life.
Des Browne
#30. I'd send them both letters wishing them safe travels. Maybe they'd send me a postcard. Maybe they'd call when they got back, or when they settled in at college. Maybe they wouldn't, and they'd end up in the book. It was uncertain, like life.
I was starting to be okay with that.
Sarah Ockler
#31. The most fulfilling adventures happen when you start your journey without knowing where you're going, because only then are you free to experience the unexpected detours you're meant to take.
A.J. Darkholme
#32. At any specific stage of your life, you are certain about few things which when passes over the time to be something uncertain and vice versa.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#33. In your works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions is exactly what I am trying to find in my paintings.
Wassily Kandinsky
#34. If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?
Jonah Goldberg
#36. In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.
Banana Yoshimoto
#37. Take your happiness where you find it, children, and don't ask too many questions. Life is too short and uncertain to do otherwise.
Jacqueline Carey
#38. Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
Jim Valvano
#39. You can't have the past. Only the future, and the future is, of course, completely uncertain.
Jean Oram
#40. In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!
Sheila Walsh
#41. You can either follow your dreams or adjust with your society's expectations ... Either way, consequences are uncertain ... the path to glory or the boulevard of mediocrity, both lead to the grave ... Choose what's worthwhile, for the end is the same.
K. Hari Kumar
#42. Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.
Haruki Murakami
#43. For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.
Deepak Chopra
#44. A woman of faith is fearless. There is no ambiguity, no uncertain trump in her life. She can live a principled life because she studies the doctrine and teachings of a perfect teacher, the Master. She is a noble example to all who know her.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#45. Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
Hugh Mackay
#46. Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain.
Marcus Aurelius
#47. Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.
Susanna Kearsley
#48. But I have my life, I'm living it. It's twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there's something there.
Banana Yoshimoto
#50. We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth.
Jeff Corwin
#51. Life was an uncertain thing, and there were some moments one wished to remember, to imprint upon one's mind that the memory might be taken out later, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book, and admired and recollected anew. - Sophie and Gideon Lightwood
Cassandra Clare
#52. It is foolishness to want what never was or will never will be, lament the passage of time, and live in fearfulness of an uncertain future. The moods generated by regret including depression and self-loathing congeal in our sentient consciousness creating the painful landscape of the self.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#53. You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.
Albert Einstein
#54. I'd rather be not the light in your life
The bright day might make me obscure
I'd rather be the cold darkness
For it remains, unseen, uncertain and unsure
Sanhita Baruah
#55. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
John Keats
#56. No matter what there always seems to be something clouding my existence, nothing is ever clear.
Emilyann Girdner
#57. Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
Democritus
#58. Life is too uncertain ... You must seize happiness where you find it.
Deanna Raybourn
#59. Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.
George Washington
#60. And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now.
Eli is as uncertain as I am, as we all are. Life has surprised him like it has me. Has hurt him like it has me.
Elizabeth Scott
#61. Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.
Milarepa
#62. Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving, continuing on your own path, even when you feel shaky and uncertain.
Charlotte Beers
#63. Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like God than when you forgive. Let it go. Kill the root of bitterness. Let the hurt go and set yourself free.
Craig Groeschel
#64. A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#65. Sometimes, life can seem very uncertain. No matter what, find the source that keeps you strong and keep in alignment with that source. Don't be swayed or dismayed with the uncertainties, instead, be firm with that which you are certain of.
Eveth N Colley
#66. Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
Arthur Eddington
#67. In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.
Christopher Hitchens
#68. While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
Elizur Wright
#69. Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.
Rebecca Pidgeon
#70. Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
George Eliot
#71. Don't wait for things to happen by luck, cause its an uncertain thing anyway.
Giridhar Alwar
#72. If God wants something done, can it be done? I am personally convinced that no goal God has for my life is impossible, uncertain, nor can it be blocked.
Neil T. Anderson
#73. The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.
George Saintsbury
#74. It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#75. But still, he reflected, I ought to wash my pajamas more often. Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.
Tengo, IQ84
Haruki Murakami
#76. For at this juncture, the West has cut itself off from its own Jewish and Christian roots - the faith, the ideas, the ethics and the way of life that made it the West. It now stands deeply divided, uncertain of its post-Christian identity, and with its dominance waning in the global era.
Os Guinness
#77. Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now!
Frank Herbert
#78. The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty.
Deepak Chopra
#79. The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.
Abbas Kiarostami
#80. She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future ... which suddenly felt so uncertain.
Dan Brown
#81. We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time ... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.
Oswald Chambers
#82. Live life for the momentr becuase everything else is uncertain
Louis Tomlinson
#83. Life is so uncertain that it is far better and more joyous to play your way through it than to plan or pray your way through it.
Dee Hock
#84. What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#85. Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart ... do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#86. Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.
Woody Allen
#88. My Solo Adventure #1- Bali: Imagination unlocked, escaping a cage drawn by a relentless life. Soul freed, reaching beyond the hidden dimensions of an uncertain universe. Thirst. Hunger. Rebirth. For forever we are greedy.
Abeer Allan
#89. The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.
Chanakya
#90. Life is so uncertain, that we ought to secure happiness while it is within our reach.
Alexandre Dumas
#91. In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.
A.J. Darkholme
#92. Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.
Kate O'Mara
#93. I, personally, have resolved never to display weakness, to be always strong and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty
no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no other way to survive this ordeal.
Jim Fergus
#94. Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.
William Shakespeare
#95. Life seemed to him a gift; the statement 'I am alive' seemed to him to contain a satisfactory certainty and many other things, held up as indubitable, seemed to him uncertain.
James Joyce
#96. Raven was asking Apple to give up all known paths forever after. To lose everything that was known and safe. To spend her entire life on unfamiliar paths and wind-beaten cliffs. Every day uncertain, dangerous, treading water in a well with no guarantee of a Happily Ever After.
Shannon Hale
#97. There's a thin line between an uncertain 'Yes' and a certain 'No' known as 'lame indecisiveness'.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#98. If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain.
Jed Rubenfeld
#99. Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.
Eric Greitens
#100. The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane Addams
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