Certainty Loss Quotes

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

Societies faced with bewildering changes, and feeling old certainties threatened, are open to new cults.

When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.

I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.