Life Unpredictability Quotes

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. It’s very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.

I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

Life's a rollercoaster. You're up one minute; you're down one minute. But who doesn't like rollercoasters?

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

Nothing is every promised to us, man.

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.

Well, there are a lot of things outside our control - outside my control. And this is true with anybody's life: You try to keep the train on a certain track, and then there are a lot of moving parts that you can't control. And that tends to make you nervous.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that.

And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

The old player in me can certainly sympathise with how your targets change because you simply do not know what is around the corner.

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

Life is very cyclical. And my career has been very-high-very-low, very-high-very-low, and I think it'll probably keep on rolling that way.

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they're supposed to happen and the way they're supposed to happen.

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.

Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.