No Guarantees Quotes

“People and things will come and go. Everything in this life is transient. This is why spirit must always be our first priority. For it is our only true constant.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“It was the best they could do, and the rest would be in God's hands. It was the same with raising a family. There were no guarantees in life [...]”
― Elizabeth Camden, Carved in Stone

“After all, there’s no sort of guarantee when it comes to love, nor about feeling any sort of way that leaves you attached to another person. We’re unpredictable, almost toxic in a way. If there’s anything I’ve learned since the first day I made this discovery, it’s the fact that we shouldn’t have the sort of relationship that we do. We shouldn’t associate with one another. I shouldn’t care about you. Because like I claimed already, there’s inevitably going to be one person who cares more than the other person does, who feels more than the other person does. And in learning this, in learning that I care more about you than you do about me, I’ve found that I’ve given you the uncanny ability to break me down and, above all else, to destroy me.”
― Cara Demers

“There are no guarantees in life, no certainties in life - just the ever-changing, flowing river of life.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Joy is never guaranteed,' Tiernan says, his voice gentle. 'But you can wed yourself to pain. I suppose, at least in that, there is no chance of surprise.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne