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Quotes About Ambivalence

That's the Elektra I tried to portray: one that's always in the grey. She is a tortured soul.
~ Elodie Yung
My label, my genre, my everything is happy sad - I do a smiley face with eyes on both sides. So basically to me, it's totally okay to be happy and sad at the same time, it's totally okay just to be sad, it's totally okay to be happy.
~ Gnash
In theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don't want to start sinking slowly... I want to learn, blah blah blah. Then I think about actually going and sitting in classes and, man, it sounds terrible.
~ Conor Oberst
185. It Is Getting So Dark Whatever people may think of my book, I still regret that it ever came to light.
~ Sei Sh?nagon
There are some songs in your playlist which u don't want to listen and don't want to delete either ....same is the case with some relationships...you want to keep them no matter what...even if you know that they are there for namesake...
~ Self
Hon kunde aldrig hänge sig helt åt något. Om hon älskade, ja, vad hon än gjorde, stod liksom ena hälften av hennes jag och såg på med ett kallt hånlöje.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
I kind of like it up here, Kugel said. It's got a certain fatalistic charm, a certain je ne sais fucked.
~ Shalom Auslander
Whether I want kids is a secret I keep from myself—it is the greatest secret I keep from myself.
~ Sheila Heti
What if I've suppressed my desire for children so much that my desire is unrecognizable to me?
~ Sheila Heti
Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.
~ Gayle Forman
Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
~ Jasper Fforde
Award shows are really silly. I'm very happy for the people that win the awards, and I can say they're really silly, but I would love to get one. So I also know wasting time on that is pointless.
~ Jim Gaffigan
I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man
~ Thom Yorke
Though perhaps I would be unable then either to agree or to disagree. I would be dead.
~ Mary Balogh
I wanted to live my life but I didn't want to do what I had to do to go on
~ Mary Oliver
I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it.
~ Mary Shelley
half-right, half-wrong.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
President Barack Obama's observation that the prime minister had "one foot in the old ways of doing business and one foot in the new," Putin said, "We don't spread our legs.
~ Masha Gessen
Like pretty much every cat I've ever met, Jeter swings back and forth between loving me and trying to murder me, so I never know exactly what I'm getting.
~ Matthew Norman
Her old high school was a fine high school, if you liked high school. It wasn't bad or evil. It was just like it was supposed to be - miles of linoleum and humming lights, the warm funk of cafeteria stink too early in the morning, the flashes of inspiration that were quickly quashed by long stretches of tedium, and the perpetual desire to be somewhere else.
~ Maureen Johnson
Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.
~ Ayn Rand
She did not mind this new background; she was indifferent to the slums as she had been indifferent to the drawing rooms.
~ Ayn Rand
I see a bird like a cock, which means good news, but you yourself are very agitated. A road that looks bright. And you are on the first step. You are thinking of a hundred things at the same time. One road is closed and dark, and the other is open and full of light. Both could happen; it is your choice. There is a key; a problem will be solved. ... A small ship that is still in the harbor and has not yet started to set sail.
~ Azar Nafisi