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Quotes About Ambiguity

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
~ Joseph Brodsky
It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
~ Laura Wade
...cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it seems.
~ Paula Wolfert
You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
~ Patrick Ness, More Than This
Maybe my life isn't great. We don't have all the answers. Look at it from my side.
~ Dennis Rodman
If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.
~ Edward Albee
That's the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.
~ Nicholas Sparks
You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.
~ Nora Ephron
I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
~ Oscar Wilde
I don't know if I thrive in normal life.
~ Kathryn Bigelow
Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.
~ Mason Cooley
The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.
~ Mason Cooley
I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.
~ Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive
From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
There are always loose ends in real life.
~ Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm
Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
Everything in life is gray, you know.
~ Jeannette Walls
Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.
~ Phyllis Bottome
The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty
~ Yoshida Kenko
I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute
~ A.S. King
Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.
~ Amy Sherman-Palladino
I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.
~ Andre Dubus
And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.
~ Ani DiFranco