Quotes About Ambivalence

There's a thin line between mockery and endorsement.

It is difficult to portray grey characters because there is a very thin line between being nasty and slightly negative.

When you fail to communicate, there are gray areas. And when there's gray areas, then bad things happen.

As an actor, I'm ambivalent because I'm focused on the other person and what they're giving me, what I need to be giving them, and what the character is thinking.

Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing.

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

I simply--don't know," Flavius said, and then suddenly explosive: "I don't know and I don't care! Go to bed.

He looked both proud and guilty of something. As if happiness was a reward and he wasn't sure he'd done enough to deserve it.

I am still on my zigzag way, pursuing the diagonal between reason and heart.

To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.

the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means 'technically illegal but officially tolerated.

It is the discrepancy between the promise implicit in his touch and his daily interactions with her that generates so much confusion and ambivalence for Martha.--from Lo Siento

Where were we? I've forgotten. He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever. Right. Yes. The usual choices.

This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.

Now I wanted to be acknowledged, but I feared it.

Most hearts say, I want, I want, I want, I want. My heart is more duplicitous, though to twin as I once thought. It says, I want, I don't want, I want, and then a pause. It forces me to listen

Having experienced both, I am not sure which is worse: intense feeling or the absence of it.

Too good to be true, I will think. Too good for this earth. Good, be thou my evil.

I waver, I waver. But tomorrow is another day.

She lived with several men, but in each of the apartments there were always cardboard boxes, belonging to her, that she never got around to unpacking; just as well, because it was that much easier to move out. When she got past thirty she decided it might be nice to have a child, some time, later. She tried to figure out a way of doing this without becoming a mother.

He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened. He accepted the universe and his place in it for what they were and, shrugging, turned to his music and books and his better world.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you're worth.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.