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5. “After a while, it sort of began to rain, which is to say that it was the kind of rain that never comes to a decision about whether it’s actually raining or not. Driving in it, you would never have been certain whether or not to turn on your wipers.”
Neil Gaiman
Weather, Uncertainty, Metaphor, Perception, Confusion
9. “In the pale light of the Moon I play the game of you. Whoever I am. Whoever you are. All sense of where I am, of who I am and where I'm going, has been swallowed by the dark. And I walk through the stars and sky... a trinity of dreams beneath the moon.” Neil Gaiman Identity, Uncertainty, Dreams, Night, Poetic Imagery
17. “Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged – the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.” F. Scott Fitzgerald Relationships, Uncertainty, Affection, Human Connection, Perseverance
21. “Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.” Michel de Montaigne Reason, Senses, Knowledge, Philosophy, Uncertainty
22. “In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.” Arthur Schopenhauer Youth, Anticipation, Life, Uncertainty, Metaphor
Uncertainty Quotes by Famous Authors
5. “After a while, it sort of began to rain, which is to say that it was the kind of rain that never comes to a decision about whether it’s actually raining or not. Driving in it, you would never have been certain whether or not to turn on your wipers.”
Neil Gaiman Weather, Uncertainty, Metaphor, Perception, Confusion
9. “In the pale light of the Moon I play the game of you. Whoever I am. Whoever you are. All sense of where I am, of who I am and where I'm going, has been swallowed by the dark. And I walk through the stars and sky... a trinity of dreams beneath the moon.”
Neil Gaiman Identity, Uncertainty, Dreams, Night, Poetic Imagery
17. “Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged – the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald Relationships, Uncertainty, Affection, Human Connection, Perseverance
21. “Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.”
Michel de Montaigne Reason, Senses, Knowledge, Philosophy, Uncertainty
22. “In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Youth, Anticipation, Life, Uncertainty, Metaphor
