Quotes About Ambivalence

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

I wondered if I were glad or sorry to see it—if I were more pleased with his loyalty to his absent employer, or disappointed that my presence had not made everybody else forgotten.

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die

I'm very calm and take no notice of all the fuss. I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway. I'll just let matters take their course and concentrate on studying and hope that everything will be all right in the end.

But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I've more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what I will ever know, or will ever deserve to know. I am not so much in love with happiness. Yet the name Paris makes me feel it.

I sometimes do believe, and sometimes do not, as those that fear they hope, and know they fear.

Perhaps many of them shared my sentiments, but our options then were black and white, between this and that. The grey area of freedom we longed for existed only in dreams.

but it does not want

And I laughed because half of me was happy and half of me wasn't sure what else to do.

She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.

His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

It harassed him always, that beautiful snow. He could never understand why he didn't go to California. Yet he stayed in Colorado, in the deep snow, because it was too late now.

We don't know how to insult you any more' (Inter fan banner, directed at their own team)

I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

While between two stools my tail go to the ground.

The computer is very good at solving the problem we have specified and asked it to solve, but less useful when we are not quite sure what the problem is.

proluctance n. the paradoxical urge to avoid doing something you've been looking forward to-opening a decisive letter, meeting up with a friend who's finally back in town, reading a new book from your favorite author-perpetually waiting around for the right state of mind, stretching out the bliss of anticipation as long as you can.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

Dread clenched my stomach. I liked that I had won a contest and that they had thought I was a boy, and I was glad about the fifty dollars. But I didn't want my story to be published, or to read from it. I didn't want anyone to think I thought it was good.

when she saw Addison was concern, weariness, a dash of contempt, a dash of pride, a dash of hope.

Even if Tellun himself bounded in here with party hats, I'm not sure there would be any reason to celebrate.