Life & Wisdom Quote by Tanith Lee

Uncertainty, here, isn’t a bug in the journey; it’s the engine. Tanith Lee frames not-knowing as a kind of chosen weather: disorienting, alive, and oddly luxurious. The first sentence lands with a casual, almost confessional shrug, then immediately refuses the usual self-help correction. Instead of pretending there’s a map, Lee leans into the pleasure of moving through fog. “That is part of what makes it so wonderful” turns what we’re trained to treat as a deficiency into a feature, quietly mocking the modern obsession with optimization and five-year plans.

The kicker is the last line: “And after all, who does?” It’s a rhetorical question that works like a trapdoor. If you were about to judge the speaker as directionless, you’re suddenly implicated. The subtext is democratic and slightly mischievous: certainty is the real fantasy, and the people selling it are either lying or deluded. Coming from Lee - a writer celebrated for luxuriant, dreamlike fantasy and mythic subversions - the sentiment feels less like an inspirational poster and more like an aesthetic principle. Her fiction often treats identity and fate as shifting costumes rather than fixed destinations; this quote carries the same worldview in miniature.

The intent isn’t resignation. It’s permission. Lee rebrands ambiguity as wonder, not because the future is harmless, but because narrative itself depends on not knowing what’s next. If you already have the ending, you’re not living a story - you’re executing a schedule.