Quotes About Ambivalence

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

There was a tolerably fair sprinkling of young folks, and another fair sprinkling of gentlemen and ladies who were non-committal as to age, being neither actually old or absolutely young.

Everything was good. But it was awful, too.

There were reasons to leave, and reasons to stay, and all of it was the same.

I'm twenty years old and look at me-- there isn't a thing I want to do

No quiere amarme pero tampoco quiere perderme.

She loved and hated her best friend, Rudy Steiner, which was perfectly normal.

Everything about this evening is both exquisite and bewildering and I can't decide if I want to go on with this dream or run back down the yellow-lit rock to the stable. But the stable door is closed.

I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop.

between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and

you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea while we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I said to you, "That afternoon when I met so-and-so . . . was the very best afternoon of my life, and also the very worst afternoon.

Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!

It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.

At the time I was being celebrated for having made 'India' (whatever that means) proud. It was an odd place to be in, because I wasn't feeling at all proud of India or what was going on here.

however, the doubts really set in.

Wanting to want something isn't the same as wanting it. I suppose what I really wanted, then, was to give more of a shit, because about certain things, I simply did not.

Oh my God, I think. I envy people who are so easygoing, but I also don't understand them at all.

Allora ho capito che, qualunque cosa io faccia, sarà lo stesso; voglia o non voglia per te dev'essere una tortura. Forse qualcosa di peggio, poiché gli strumenti di tortura sono passivi e innocenti, come le pietre che possono cadere e ammazzare. Ma uno strumento di tortura che ti ama e che vuole il tuo bene... Veramente non posso immaginarmelo.

I cannot be assured of exactly what I created be it madness and monster or beauty and light.

I'm caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.

And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

I don't know if it's good or bad. I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do. I just don't know.

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.