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37. “I don’t know. I really don’t know. Perhaps that would be best, I thought I wanted it myself. But today I’m no longer sure what I really want and desire. Before, everything was simple, as simple as letters in my textbook. Now nothing is simple any more, not even the letters. Everything has taken on many meanings and faces. I don’t know what will become of me, I can’t think about that now.”
Hermann Hesse
Uncertainty, Confusion, Complexity, Self Reflection, Existential Dilemma, Personal Growth
42. “I was a gamble of Nature, a throw of the dice into an uncertain realm, leading perhaps to something new, perhaps to nothing; and to let this throw from the primordial depths take effect, to feel its will inside myself and adopt it completely as my own will: that alone was my vocation. That alone! I.” Hermann Hesse Destiny, Purpose, Uncertainty, Existence, Self Discovery, Inner Will
43. “In reality there was only one thing you dreaded: letting yourself fall, taking the step into uncertainty, the little step beyond all the securities that existed. And whoever had once surrendered himself, one single time, whoever had practiced the great act of confidence and entrusted himself to fate, was liberated. He no longer obeyed the laws of earth; he had fallen into space and swung along in the dance of the constellations. That was it.” Hermann Hesse Dread, Fall, Uncertainty, Liberation, Personal Transformation, Existential Freedom
45. “We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value – a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.” T.S. Eliot Adaptation, Value, Testing, Uncertainty, Progress, Judgment
49. “The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.” Orson Scott Card Fear, Death, Chaos, Uncertainty, Trust, Existential Dread
51. “There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decision will be right or best or even not-horrible for any particular child. It is a job that simply cannot be done right.” Orson Scott Card Parenting, Responsibility, Uncertainty, Potential, Child Rearing, Human Relationships
55. “It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.” E.M. Forster Uncertainty, Unpredictability, Rehearsal, Spontaneity, Preparation, Authenticity
Uncertainty Quotes by Famous Authors
37. “I don’t know. I really don’t know. Perhaps that would be best, I thought I wanted it myself. But today I’m no longer sure what I really want and desire. Before, everything was simple, as simple as letters in my textbook. Now nothing is simple any more, not even the letters. Everything has taken on many meanings and faces. I don’t know what will become of me, I can’t think about that now.”
Hermann Hesse Uncertainty, Confusion, Complexity, Self Reflection, Existential Dilemma, Personal Growth
42. “I was a gamble of Nature, a throw of the dice into an uncertain realm, leading perhaps to something new, perhaps to nothing; and to let this throw from the primordial depths take effect, to feel its will inside myself and adopt it completely as my own will: that alone was my vocation. That alone! I.”
Hermann Hesse Destiny, Purpose, Uncertainty, Existence, Self Discovery, Inner Will
43. “In reality there was only one thing you dreaded: letting yourself fall, taking the step into uncertainty, the little step beyond all the securities that existed. And whoever had once surrendered himself, one single time, whoever had practiced the great act of confidence and entrusted himself to fate, was liberated. He no longer obeyed the laws of earth; he had fallen into space and swung along in the dance of the constellations. That was it.”
Hermann Hesse Dread, Fall, Uncertainty, Liberation, Personal Transformation, Existential Freedom
45. “We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value – a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.”
T.S. Eliot Adaptation, Value, Testing, Uncertainty, Progress, Judgment
49. “The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.”
Orson Scott Card Fear, Death, Chaos, Uncertainty, Trust, Existential Dread
51. “There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decision will be right or best or even not-horrible for any particular child. It is a job that simply cannot be done right.”
Orson Scott Card Parenting, Responsibility, Uncertainty, Potential, Child Rearing, Human Relationships
55. “It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.”
E.M. Forster Uncertainty, Unpredictability, Rehearsal, Spontaneity, Preparation, Authenticity
