Quotes About Ambiguity

Now there are times when a whole generation is caught...between two ages, two modes of life, with the consequence that it loses all power to understand itself and has no standards, no security, no simple acquiescence." —Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf.

Je devais un jour opter pour la littérature, qui me paraissait le dernier refuge, sur cette terre, de tous ceux qui ne savent pas où se fourrer.

I don't consider myself to be definite, but in waiting position and eventual appearance

You can say anything you like about life, but one thing is certain: life doesn't give a damn. It has never made any clear distinction between happiness and misery. It simply doesn't watch where it's going.

rien n'est blanc ou noir et que le blanc, c'est souvent le noir qui se cache et le noir, c'est parfois le blanc qui s'est fait avoir.

Non so se sia un uccello, una farfalla o una lucertola, perché la fantasia infantile si era guardata bene dal privarlo di tutte le sue possibilità.

Quand on a deux corps, il vient des moments où l'on est à moitié.

You replace all my doubts... with others.

He was a faulty judge of character, a prevaricator, a child at heart. He went everywhere unrecognized and lunched with Kansas City shopkeepers and merchants, calling himself a cattleman or commodities investor, someone rich and leisured who had the common touch.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

How vague these husbands are.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

painful ambiguities.

Sometimes I dream I am a man," said Millie, which was the sort of statement neither of them could meet with a response.

I don't know why they want me here on earth, the little rocks. I don't know why they care about me as they do. I only know that by the time I reached the tree I had no choice but to fling the rope away from myself. I turned back, my fingers rubbing the little agate. All the way back to the store not a single rock slipped underfoot.

I carefully kept myself in a cloud of unknowing.

Earth and sky touch everywhere and nowhere, like sex between two strangers. There is no definition and no union for sure. (The Antelope Wife)

People live from one play to the next. In between, before the curtain goes up, they don't quite know what the plot will be or what part will be right for them, they stand there at a loss, waiting to see what will happen, their instincts folded up like an umbrella, squirming, incoherent, reduced to themselves, that is, to nothing. Cows without a train.

There's something very pleasant about a language you don't understand... It's like a fog swirling around in our thoughts... It's nice, it's like a dream, there's really nothing better... It's fine as long as the words stay in the dream...

Képtelen voltam a bÅ'gést abbahagyni... - Nem! Én csak egy bohóc vagyok, bácsikám! - Nem! Azt már nem! csibém! ... Inkább csak faszfej vagy, kicsikém!

Readers, friends, less than friends, enemies, Critics! Here I am at it again with Book I of Guignol! Don't judge me too soon! Wait awhile for what's to follow! Book II! Book III! it all clears up! develops, straightens out! As is, ¾ of it's missing! Is that a way to do things? It had to be printed fast because with things as they are you don't know who's living or dead!

Oamenii trec de la o comedie la alta. Între timp piesa nu e înc? montat?, nu-i discern contururile, rolul ce li se potriveÅŸte cel mai bine, ÅŸi-atunci stau aÅŸa, cu mâinile-n sân în faÅ£a evenimentului, cu instinctele repliate ca o umbrel?, cl?tinând din cap în ÅŸov?iala lor, reduÅŸi la a fi ei înÅŸiÅŸi, adic? nimic. Cârpe pleoÅŸtite.

Tutto quello che è interessante accade nell'ombra, davvero. Non si sa nulla della vera storia degli uomini.

Everything had come easily to her. her whole life: This was the only thing that remained resolutely beyond her control.