Quotes About Ambivalence

resort. Yes, exactly, only now, after all this time, I had discovered that the grenade was a dud, and I could hop right back to that same old spot which was safety. The excruciating thing was that those two selves were now warring with each other. I wanted desperately to find those camels, and I wanted desperately not to find them. The pilot snapped me back to the present dilemma. 'Well, what do you want to do? Shall

Outwardly mocking, but never quite to the point if not wanting to participate.

but more than anything, the homecoming nomination made me feel as though I was being pushed back into a world I was happy to leave behind

I was the ref. I was the ref they didn't know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win

One wonders whether Rachel Carson would have been as adamant against the use of genetically modified Bt crops as many environmentalists have been in more recent times. Moreover, given the book's ambivalence over the use of chemical pesticides, it raises the question of how far she would have traveled on this branch of the Other Road that she herself pointed out.

You can say anything you like about life, but one thing is certain: life doesn't give a damn. It has never made any clear distinction between happiness and misery. It simply doesn't watch where it's going.

rien n'est blanc ou noir et que le blanc, c'est souvent le noir qui se cache et le noir, c'est parfois le blanc qui s'est fait avoir.

We have known for a long time that the petit-bourgeois reformer finds "good" and "bad" sides in everything.

I know thy works, that thou are neither cold nor hot; I would that thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.

The difference is that love and hate are mixed together now, making it impossible for me to decide which is the stronger and at times they even seem the same.

Those people were pushing life and night and day in front of them. Life hides everything from people. Their own noise prevents them from hearing anything else. They couldn't care less. The bigger and taller the city, the less they care. Take it from me. I've tried. It's a waste of time.

My mother would offer a selection of his watercolors to the peddlers at lunch hour ... She did all she could to keep me alive, I just shouldn't have been born.

I can never make up my mind about anything myself - I'm always afflicted with indecision. Just as soon as I decided to do something I feel in my bones that another course would be the correct one. It's dreadful misfortune, but I was born that way, and there is no use in blaming me for it, as some people do.

Ambiguities everywhere should be collected as evidence of ambivalence.

The best and worst of life all rolled into one incident," Mildrede said sadly. "Life never seems to be able to give you one without the other.

Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

If you asked me how I felt when they told me I would marry Wen Fu, I can say only this: It was like being told I had won a big prize. And it was also like being told my head was going to be chopped off. Something between those two feelings.

No estoy ni triste ni alegre; este aire de aquí te llena de una muy vaga exaltación y te hace conocer un estado que parece tan lejano de la alegría como de la pena; quizá esto sea la felicidad.

I always see, almost simultaneously, the two sides of each idea, and the emotion is always polarized in me.

I think he must have made my mother very unhappy, and yet he loved her—that is, if he ever really loved anyone.

I didn't particularly want to die but I also didn't at all want to live.

There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden. These parents need space for their ambivalence, whether they can allow it for themselves or not. For those who love, there should be no shame in being exhausted—even in imagining another life.

What nourishes me also destroys me