Quotes About Ambivalence

Now, alone on the roof, Valentine looked at her shoes and wished people would either stay or go away, but not constantly coming back and leaving again.

All the while, Everett felt both the threat of disorder and the steady, thrumming promise of having everything he wanted, all at once.

Ya nunca será lo mismo para ti. Nunca volverás a ver con ojos inocentes o sin ambivalencia en la mente, como antes de este momento. Una parte de ti está ahora consagrada a todo lo que excluye ese simple gozo y exultación. Bienaventurado has sido de poseerlo durante un breve período...»

Funny how my status seemed to change depending on the eyes of the beholder. To Drew I was a Nought and would never be anything else. Lucas called me a Cross. Where did that leave me? On one side or the other or stuck somewhere in the middle? 'Lucas,

My Schadenfreude phaser is set to Meh.

In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counter word in English. It is the verb vascular, present participle vacilando. I does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere but doesn't greatly care whether or not her gets there, although he has direction. . . We could choose some article almost certain not to exist there and then diligently try to find it.

I don't know. It's like getting up in the morning. I don't want to get up but I don't want to stay in bed either.

He is between worlds, this boy. Between the river and the town, between the hogshead and the house, between the taint of his mother and the stain of his pap. He knows some things that he can never say, not even to himself.

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Actually, the very notion that it will come within reach—that there is no fulfillment which will be forever denied us, as long as it has ceased to be a fulfillment we desire—is one which, though true, is only partly true. By the time it comes to us, we have become indifferent to it.

Heterosexuality is not a neutral science and the inner logic of the system works with its own artificially created 'either/or' concepts. It unifies the ambivalence of life into one official version. Per/versions (the different versions of a road) are silenced.

Think Pickelman's our guy?' 'Maybe. Or maybe he knows who is. Or maybe he's guilty of something else.' 'Glad you could narrow it down,' Bailey replied. 'Always here for ya.

Give us either bright sun or pouring rain—the in-between stuff depresses me.

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They'll never forgive me, except they love me, so they will.

Sometimes I open a book that's so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can't stand it. It's like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart. A day or two days later I'm saying, All right, and I just surrender to it: Do it to me. Go ahead. I want it. I don't want it. I want it. I don't want it.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

What a fine weather today! Can't choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.