Mark Helprin Quotes

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.

Literally, I don't know where life is gonna go from one day to the next, and that's as exciting as it is tiring.

You never know what's around the corner.

Unfortunately, there are no guarentees in life.

Destiny is always dark.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.

Interesting things happen in the dark . . . sometimes.

The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the bathroom, feeling your way along in the dark. I can't hardly tell you what I do because I really don't know.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

You never know what's going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don't know how you're going to be thought of or seen.

It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

Life's uncertain voyage.

Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.