Quotes About Ambivalence

We did the 'L.A. to Miami' album, with the song 'Miami, My Amy,' which really saved my life as far as confidence goes. It gave me a hit. But it wasn't really what I was about - and I think deep down inside I knew it, even if I didn't want to face it.

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

I'm always excited to play my hometown, but I'm kind of past the Milwaukee thing.

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

when you hate daylight, when you hate anything, you will develop a certain ambiguity about life and you get reckless in your habits.

Sometimes we need someone, sometimes no one, and sometimes we need someone and no one.

because in the end nothing matters all that much , as he also wrote on another slip, and on his last slip he'd written, it's all the same .

he turned to go his own way, and hardly knew he loved her still.

Tess had never before known a time in which the thread of her life was so distinctly twisted of two strands, positive pleasure and positive pain.

Mixed hungers crossed his face; it was Krendler's nature to both appreciate Starling's leg and look for the hamstring.

You don't even dislike him all the time, hard as that is to believe. Then, if you're lucky, out of the stuff you know, part of it plucks at you, tries to get your attention. Always tell me when something plucks, Starling.

which seemed to hover in a limbo between creation and decay...

Und das tat er oder glaubte es zun tun, oder glaubte es auch selber nicht recht, oder, noch bedenklicher, es fing an, ihm gleichgültig zu werden, ob er es tat oder nicht.

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Und das tat er oder glaubte es zun tun, oder glaubte es auch selber nicht recht, oder, noch bedenklicher, es fing an, ihm gleichgültiger zu werden, ob er es tat oder nicht. (Der Zauberberg)

I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything.

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Any of us can see, of course, that there is a conflict in our lives between adventure and discipline, or evil and virtue, or freedom and security. But these are only phrases we use to describe an ambivalence that troubles us, and to which we never seem able to find an answer.

there is a conflict in our lives between adventure and discipline, or evil and virtue, or freedom and security. But these are only phrases we use to describe an ambivalence that troubles us, and to which we never seem able to find an answer.

They sometimes behave like the Delphic oracle that told King Croesus that if he crossed the Halys River he would destroy a large kingdom. It was only after he had been completely defeated in battle after the crossing that he discovered that the kingdom meant by the oracle was his own.

I felt like I was stretching to convince the world that my work was interesting, yet no one cared.