Quotes About Ambivalence

I looked back and forth at them in amazement. I didn't know if I was witnessing a fight or foreplay. I wasn't thrilled about either option.

Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still don't think you're an evil creature of the night. You are.

in between. It's like the whole thing is winking at us.

If you think about it from the perspective of E-Prime, the world consists mostly of UFOs and UNFOs. Very few things (space-time events) in the air or on the ground give us the opportunity to identify them with certainty.

Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.

The light gave him hope but he was afraid of it too.

When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.

I wonder how one can hate to love and love to hate the same person over a period of time in a relationship

I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.

In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

He didn't know if he was amused or unsettled by her ability to unbalance him the way she had. Correction. He didn't know if he was amused, unsettled or pleased by her ability.

But why is it that within me "I don't want to" and "I want to" stand side by side? That is the chief horror of the matter; I continue to long for that happy death of yesterday. The horror of it is that even now, when I have integrated the logical function, when it becomes evident that that function contains death hidden within it, still I long for it with my lips, my arms, my heart, with every millimeter....

balance of the social energy, one said, and the other nodded and added that, indeed, to climb up in this country, you'd have to use someone else as a stepping stone. Neither bothered to take up his own past, as both understood that to be safe and sound in their age, they had had their share of bodies underneath their feet to keep them afloat, and those stories were no longer relevant, their shame and guilt absolved by old age.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

The emperor beckons me; he wants me to marry his daughter. The road to the capital is long and distant; I don't want her.

Non gli dispiaceva raccontare di sé, ma era spaventoso come l'evocazione dei ricordi servisse solo a rendere la sua esistenza sempre più ambigua e incerta. [...] la parte di ricordanze che aveva la funzione di controllo e di indagine non andava forse accumulandosi di nascosto come letame?" pp.1338-9, Yukio Mishima, Romanzi e Racconti, La casa di Kyoko, volume 1, i Meridiani

See? The line between good things and bad things is very thin. Most of the time, you can find them at the same place.

Then what will happen tomorrow? Nobody knows.

There is bad in good and there is no good in bad."

We don't know what we are; the point is that in a place where everything gets distorted, no one knows who he