Quotes About Ambivalence

She wasn't sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.

How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.

Lui la seguì, senza maglietta: portava solo i boxer. Non era costretto a seguirla. Il cuore di Bridget faceva le fusa. Tese una mano verso di lui. «Sapevi che sarei venuta?» chiese. Faticava a distinguere i lineamenti di Eric, nell'oscurità. «Non volevo» rispose lui. Fece una lunga pausa. «E lo speravo»

I don't know what I want or what I feel. I thought I wanted this. Us. But now I'm not so sure.

She sounded pretty certain. I wasn't so confident.

I kept second-guessing my decision. Half the time, I'd wanted to call every BSC member and say, Just kidding! The other half, I'd felt this sense of relief. Yes, relief. It was faint, but it was definitely there.

Some species there be of middle natures, that is, of bird and beast, as batts; yet are their parts so set together, that we cannot define the beginning or end of either, there being a commixtion of both, rather than adaptation or cement of the one unto the other.Brown'sVulgar Errours,b. iii. c. ii.

I know not what to do, my mind is divided

Kirton, Greene, and Dean argue that as diversity becomes more professionalized, practitioners are less likely to mobilize an activist framework. They suggest that diversity practitioners have an ambivalent relationship to institutions, as captured by their use of the phrase "tempered radical" to describe the attitude of practitioners (2007: 1981)

Oh I don't know about that. - The Manteceros

Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.

She tried to be someone people liked. She tried to be someone people disliked. But all I became was someone who didn't succeed with anything I tried to be.

Norman was never one for exactness, exactly.

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire.

I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy

Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, Die eine will sich von der andern trennen;

Des Abends nehme ich mir vor, den Sonnenaufgang zu genießen, und komme nicht aus dem Bette; am Tage hoffe ich, mich des Mondscheins zu erfreuen, und bleibe in meiner Stube. Ich weiß nicht recht, warum ich aufstehe, warum ich schlafen gehe. Der Sauerteig, der mein Leben in Bewegung setzte, fehlt; der Reiz, der mich in tiefen Nächten munter erhielt, ist hin, der mich des Morgens aus dem Schlafe weckte, ist weg.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent.

After you've lived in Paris for a while, you don't want to live anywhere, including Paris.

Ambiguity supposes eventual resolution of itself whereas certitude implies further ambiguity.

In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.