Howard Jacobson Quotes

Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it

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

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

There's nothing I know for sure, because I know for sure that things change.

I think ... that things are a little bit up for grabs right now.

Uncertainty is the normal state.

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.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

I'm not someone who feels settled.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

Stability is not the way of the world.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

This plan is subject to change without notice as all plans are.