Life's Uncertainty Quotes

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.

Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got.

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that was not built for them by navigating a playground that was. . . Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Pete Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.

Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.

Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

As much as you try to organize your life, life will surprise you.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Don't forget you're alive. 'Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you're in a bad mood, you can think, hey, wait a minute, we're alive! We don't know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing this is. This can get easily forgotten in the routine of life, and that's something I'm trying to bring to my attention at all times. Don't forget you're alive. We're not dead, you know. This is the greatest thing.

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.

I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.