Quotes About Ambiguity

Some stories," she says, "can be both false and true at the same time.

all I feel sure of are questions.

You have minds," Bastian murmurs one evening in the refectory, each boy hunching almost imperceptibly farther over his food as the commandant's finger grazes the back of his uniform. "But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.

To select one word was to commit to a single path when the maze contains thousands.

Marie-Laure will indeed smell something, whether because her uncle is passing coffee grounds beneath her nose, or because they really are flying over the coffee trees of Boreno, she does not want to decide (151).

So many human beings, none of them seeing clearly.

Between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other.

You have minds. But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.

But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.

It seems to Werner that the space between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other. He thinks of the girl who may or may not be in the city behind him.

Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.

Fog on the sea, fog in the streets, fog in the mind.

It seems to Werner that in the space between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other.

Rain falls so lightly that it seems indistinguishable from fog.

What a thing, half bird, half lizard, part one thing, part another, trapped forever between more perfect states.

Caesar himself almost certainly did not aim at kingship.

How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them

People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.

There are many things in life that cannot be explained.

As Leo had said to me, none of us knew what our crime was, but reading the book was certainly a punishment. The

It felt strange. I was about to read one murder mystery while sitting inside another.

But he was a man without a shadow -- or perhaps a shadow without a man.

Somehow, she was always there when you needed her. The trouble was, she was also there when you didn't.

But if there was one thing that life had taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.