Quotes About Ambiguity

Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere.

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it—and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil.

Did he at all know where he wanted to live? Tibby didn't know that he did know. Did he at all know what he wanted to do? He was equally uncertain, but when pressed remarked that he should prefer to be quite free of any profession.

He was not attracted to the man in the sense that he wanted him for a friend, but he did feel he might help him – how, he didn't formulate. It was all very obscure, for the mountains still overshadowed Maurice. Risley, surely capering on the summit, might stretch him a helping hand.

It was a land of facilities, where nothing had to be striven for, and success was indistinguishable from failure.

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 on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gestures mean nothing, or mean too much.

When I speak of Spanglish I'make talking about a fertile terrain for negotiating a new identity. I'make feeling excited, as Gloria Anzldua did in her book Borderlands/LA Frontera, about "participating in the creation of another culture/in a state of perpetual transition/with a tolerance for ambiguity.

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

The silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

Things used to be plain and simple; you did a thing and you knew how it would turn out. But not now. The world was changing.

Life must go on; I forget just why.

A veces no sé si sos un genio que tiene larguísimas lagunas de pelotudez o un pelotudo que tiene mínimos chispazos de genio.

Not all questions can be answered.

There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.

The gods love the obscure and hate the obvious.

Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company

The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.

Life is like quotations. Sometimes it makes you laugh. Sometimes it makes you cry. Most of the time, you just don't get it.

Doubtful disputations.

In my mind ran the immortal line of James Thurber, that phrase at once so intensely comic and so pregnant with suggestions of unnameable terror: "Now we go up to the garrick and become warbs." We were going up to the garrick all right, and warbs suddenly seemed the least terrifying of the things we might become.

Just when we think we have a system, ...the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we think we know what's coming next, everything changes.