Top 31 Quotes About Uncertainty Of Death

#1. I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

Shekhar Kapur

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#2. The scariest thing about death is not dying, it's the uncertainty of what happens after

Peyton J Glenn

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#3. You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.

Dalai Lama

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#4. Since death is an inevitablility and life an uncertainty, it all comes down to how we live the precious moments of our lives. When all is said and done, when you are ready to slip peacefully from this world into the next, how do you want to be remembered?

S. Cameron Roach

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#5. We are fools when we love. I was terrified of losing her. I thought I saw her changing
I don't know if she really was, but I couldn't bear the uncertainty any longer. I ran toward the finish just like a coward runs toward the enemy and wins a medal. I wanted to get death over.

Graham Greene

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#6. It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.

King James I

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#7. A world of death is a world of stagnation, without the change that makes it worthwhile. What you call uncertainty, I call life itself.

Graham McNeill

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#8. The only certainty is uncertainty, except your own death, that's damn certain.

Rick Yancey

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#9. Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.

Max More

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#10. This is the city of uncertainty, where routes and faces look alike and are not. Death will be like that. We will forever be recognizing people we have never met. But darkness and death are not the same. One is temporary, the other is not.

Jeanette Winterson

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#11. And she knew she was not sure, she would never be sure, because uncertainty is the essence of the human condition, and death is the one barrier beyond which we cannot see. There is no hope but faith, no knowledge but the acceptance of ignorance.
Yet still she hoped that one day she would know.

Jan Siegel

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#12. One of the things that makes the uncertainty of death so difficult for us is that we could be involved in a project and then, suddenly, it's cut off. And it's cut off in the midst of our involvement, so that we don't have a chance to see it through, to accomplish what we might accomplish.

Todd May

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#13. I think about death, when I lie in bed and imagine disintegrating, my skin going leathery and my hair petrifying and a tree growing out of my stomach, it's a way to avoid what's right in front of me. It's a way to not be here, in the uncertainty of right now.

Lena Dunham

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#14. Planning for the future is like going fishing in a dry gulch; Nothing ever works out as you wanted, so give up all your schemes and ambitions. If you have got to think about something - Make it the uncertainty of the hour of your death .

Sogyal Rinpoche

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#15. Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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#16. Sometimes living with him is like being told to hold my breath as a matter of life and death - but never being told when to let that breath out. So I don't know what to do for the best. To let out that breath and suffer the consequences or to keep holding on no matter what it does to me.

Dorothy Koomson

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#17. I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.

Carl Rogers

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#18. There is uncertainty in hope, but even with its tenuous nature, it summons our strength and pulls us through fear and grief - and even death.

Priscille Sibley

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#19. The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

Pope John Paul II

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#20. One thing, however, is certain in life. No one survives it.

Johnny Rich

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#21. She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. He never said anything. She was afraid then, she was one needing charming stories and happy telling of them and not having that thing she was always trembling.

Gertrude Stein

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#22. The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

Samuel Johnson

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#23. Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

Immanuel Wallerstein

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#24. In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

Milarepa

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#25. When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

Bodhidharma

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#26. The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.

Edgar Morin

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#27. Death is certain. Life is always changing, like a puff of wind in the air, or a wave in the sea, or even a thought in the mind.

Ruth Ozeki

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#28. The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

Carl Sandburg

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#29. The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

Donald Barthelme

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#30. The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.

Carrie Ryan

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#31. How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness.

Nancy Horan

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