Quotes About Ambiguity

I couldn't decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.

Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.

Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.

there are some things in life a person just cant know

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

Unfortunately, real life can't be wrapped up with a nice little bow.

All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.

What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness.

We get the right sort of man, but the wrong side of him...

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Does she stay because she loves him as meat loves salt? Or does she stay because he has now promised her the kingdom? It is hard for her to tell the difference.

I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it." "Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him.

Every curve of his face was familiar, and also, I had never seen him before.

I do want people to feel sorry for me. I do. And then I don't. I do. And then I don't.

Well, you can laugh. It's kind of a hippopotamus and it's kind of a car. And also, it's kind of a church. The meaning is what the viewer sees in it.

We had been in the attic before. Also, we had never been in the attic before.

He is right. I do want people to feel sorry for me. I do. And then I don't. I do. And then I don't.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.

Another reason Westerners are tempted to compromise is because we tend to view the world dualistically. Things are true or false, right or wrong, good or bad. We have little patience for ambiguity or for the unsettling reality that values change over time.

We move between two darknesses.

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.

In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.

Indoors herself, partaking of tea with old Mrs Butterworth, she reflected that it is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an irruption of the audience onto the stage, and all our carefully planned gestures mean nothing, or mean too much.

Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.