Quotes About Ambiguity

Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises..:

fundamentalism is a form of mental illness that seeks to repress anxiety, ambiguity, and ambivalence. The more mature the personality structure, the greater the capacity of the person, and the culture, to tolerate the anxiety, ambiguity, and ambivalence that are a necessary and unavoidable dimension of our lives.

The truth is, all of life is a grand, blooming ambiguity.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's mortality.

Sex, for me, is equally capable of expressing positive and negative emotions, often at the same time.

Here was some mystery I would get to the bottom of. Not the bottom I'd been hoping for, but not a bad alternative.

Ever had two men at the same time, Bertrand? Up that neat little ass?" "Oh, Mitch," he said, in a way that could easily have meant yes or no.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

image. It seemed as if they were walking near

The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter—perfect in its bud as in its bloom—with no reason to explain its presence—no mission to fulfill—a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist—a puzzle to the botanist—an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man.

Poetry is what you can't translate. Art is what you can't define. Film is what you can't explain. But we're going to try, anyway.

Mankind's moral sense is not a strong beacon light, radiating outward to illuminate in sharp outline all that it touches. It is, rather, a small candle flame, casting vague and multiple shadows, flickering and sputtering in the strong winds of power and passion, greed and ideology. But brought close to the heart and cupped in one's hands, it dispels the darkness and warms the soul.

We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage.

So we're damned if we do and damned if we don't." She shrugged. "That pretty much sums up quantum physics.

My head cocked toward the sky, I cannot get off the ground, and, you passing over again, fast, perfect, and unwilling to tell me that you are doing well, or that it was mistake that placed you in that world, and me in this; or that misfortune placed these worlds in us.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

to make it seem something more, in short, than my own fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good

Las cosas nunca son lo que parecen..., todo bueno o todo malo. Sería mucho más fácil si lo fueran.

liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, walking the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was.

enough to show the black

Yes," said Julian, in a tone of voice which managed to convey at once both sympathy with and distaste for the Corcorans.

I've come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don't, and can't, understand. What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn't fit into a story, what doesn't have a story. Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain. Patch of sunlight on a yellow wall. The loneliness that separates every living creature from every other

The silence between us was happy and strange

What if - is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions-? Where does it say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe soemtimes-the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or spin it another way, soemtiems you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?