Quotes about Uncertainty

Faith is the most important factor in religious questions. If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty, so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith.

In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.

It takes a talent to doubt, it requires no talent at all to despair (pp515)

Economic storm is coming and the stress levels are going to increase because of financial worries.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about time or agony or the price they're going to have to pay for just about everything.

She had the feeling that if she went home, she might never get away. She thought of birds caught in nets. There was something inside her, beating against her ribs, urging her to do things she might not otherwise attempt. She had the strongest desire to get lost.

I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.

Was it fate?" she asked. "Do we care?" he answered.

but promise can disappear if you leave it to flounder