Anne Sexton Quotes

Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

Everything that we start is something that we don't know what the outcome is going to be.

You don't know where you'll end up.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.

So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what’s around the next bend. And isn’t that, in the end, what drives us?

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

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

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

And I can't wait to see where the road leads from here.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I don't know what's on the other side.

Darkness is full of possibility.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

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.

The future is unpredictable.