Quotes About Ambiguity

A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional space.

Una frontera indefinida no es frontera en absoluto.

and here, in this if I always lose myself.

The manager: Do you understand? Leading Man: I'm hanged if I do. The Manager: Neither do I. But let's get on with it. It's sure to be a glorious failure anyway.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

Ambiguities everywhere should be collected as evidence of ambivalence.

You and I are poets, Mrs. Osgood. Our job is to raise questions, not to answer them.

It's only music, though she said. Perhaps, Aschemann agreed. For the detective, he thought, nothing is ever only itself.

Much of life, you will never know what happened to you at all, let alone to anyone else.

Go the window: the street is empty. You may hear running footsteps, or a sigh. In a minute or two the whistles have moved away in the direction of the Tinmarket or the Margarethestrasse. Next day some minor prince is discovered in the gutter with his throat cut, and all you are left with is the impression of secret wars, lethal patience, an intelligent manouevring in the dark.

Es posible que mañana muera, y en la tierra no quedará nadie que me haya comprendido por completo. Unos me considerarán peor y otros mejor de lo que soy. Algunos dirán que era una buena persona; otros, que era un canalla. Pero las dos opiniones serán igualmente equivocadas.

não direi ótimo, mas nem tudo é ótimo neste mundo.

Ao cabo, era amigo, não direi ótimo, mas nem tudo é ótimo neste mundo.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...

we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which

She screamed out... and whether it was to help him or for him to help her, she did not know.

one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

and I know he's something more. I guess I'll just have to accept it without understanding it... Maybe that's really the point I was trying to put across.

Fewmets to Mr. Jenkins, anyhow.

We do wrong, with all the best will in the world. And sometimes we do right without even knowing it.

We tend, today, to want to have a road map of exactly where we are going. We want to know whether or not we have succeeded in everything we do. It's all right to want to know—we wouldn't be human if we didn't—but we also have to understand that a lot of the time we aren't going to know.

But to serve any discipline of art, be it to chip a David out of an unwieldy piece of marble, to take oils and put a clown on canvas, to write a drama about a young man who kills his father and marries his mother and suffers for these actions, to hear a melody and set the notes down for a string quartet, is to affirm meaning, despite all the ambiguities and tragedies and misunderstanding which surround us.