Quotes About Ambivalence

I felt I was a bit switched off for years, not really caring about things. I don't know if that's depression or whatever, but I was thinking 'I might. Aye I will. No, I willnae' as far as getting a second series goes.

Everything in life is a double-edged sword.

I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.

Would I change anything? I don't know, that's a double edge sword for me.

I'm living in Sydney now - but you know when you've grown up in a certain place and you end up living in another, you never really quite feel like it's home. You feel like a bit of an impostor. I feel like I'm in a place that's moving faster than I can swim.

But at the exact same time I got nervous about that, I also got this other feeling, which I can only describe of as love for Annemarie's elevator.

We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope.

what I did, I didn't want

She both hated and loved him.

Oppenheimer did not doubt that he would be remembered to some degree, and reviled, as the man who led the work of bringing to mankind for the first time in its history the means of its own destruction.2154 He cherished the complementary compensation of knowing that the hard riddle the bomb would pose had two answers, two outcomes, one of them transcendent.

Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us? Who hasn't considered this terrible possibility?

I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.

Frank gave Leo a confused smile- like he couldn't decide whether to gloat or to thank Leo for being a doofus- but he cheerfully let Hazel drag him along.

I got the feeling Poseidon really didn't know what to think of me. He didn't know whether he was happy to have me as a son or not. In a strange way, I was glad that Poseidon was so distant. If he'd tried to apologize, or told me he love me, or even smiled. it would've felt fake. Like human dad, making some lame excuse for not being around. I could live with that. After all, I wasn't sure about him yet, either.

But the other thing I felt—that no one had ever told me I might—was that as much as I loved him, I could never be totally sure that I wanted him around forever. I did not know if my life was categorically "better" for having him here.

Maybe she wanted too many things. To get closer to Nate - but to just stay friends. To make love with him - but keep her heart uninvolved. To stay with him forever - but never commit.

Often, people want both to live and to die; ambivalence saturates the suicidal act.

One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.

When you're dealing with an ambivalent relationship, you're constantly on guard, grappling with questions of trust.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

Ambivalence is simultaneously wanting and not wanting something, or wanting both of two incompatible things. It has been human nature since the dawn of time.

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing

Fair is foul, and foul is fair:Hover through the fog and filthy air.

We would, and we would not.