Quotes About Ambivalence

At the end of the day the hatred for all of the work is just part of the work

Here is how to read the monthly E.T.A. and U.S.T.A. and O.N.A.N.T.A. rankings the way Himself read scholars' reviews of his multiple-exposure melodramas. Learn to care and not to care. They mean the rankings to help you determine where you are, not who you are. Memorize your monthly rankings, and forget them. Here is how: never tell anyone where you are.

It is at once too noisy and too quiet to do any real work, and I have no ideas that do not seem to me shallow and overwrought.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

A little more than kin, a little less than kind.

the essence of Macbeth is seeing a great and intelligent man succumb to the forces of darkness. What gives the tragedy

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

fulfillment is always murky, insufficiently clear, devoid of the greatness and purity of the undertaking.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

They were like curmudgeonly old friends who would never admit that they liked me yet came round to see me all the time. The

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he yearns to have a home. And yet how bestial is content—all the great things in life are done by discontented people.

Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.

His smile—crooked and cynical and too familiar with the world—and at the same time full of hope.

Imperial children are necessary, but they're not exactly wanted. In

I have followed only one idea all the way--the idea that everything man achieves necessarily turns against him.

il mio merito non è di essere totalmente inefficiente ma di aver voluto esserlo

Fiction can accommodate ambivalence as polemic cannot

Ne olduÄŸumu bilmediÄŸimden, "olmamak" gerçeÄŸe en yak?n olduÄŸum yerdi: en az?ndan madalyonun öteki yüzü kontrolümde: en az?ndan "-mamak"a sahiptim, tersime sahiptim. O zaman benim için neyin iyi olduÄŸunu bilmiyordum; benim için kötü olana da böylece ?s?nm?? oldum.

I'm lost on this Sunday that's neither hot nor cold, having already taken refuge in a movie theater... I wished

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

It was a kind of Cadmean victory.