Quotes About Ambiguity

it was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness

When you've fallen in love, broken up, lost a love one, and start getting older, everything seems the same. I couldn't tell what was good and what was bad, what was better and what was worse. I simply didn't want to have any more bad memories. I wished that time could stop, and summer will never come to an end. I felt vulnerable.

Las palabras son siempre demasiado explicítas y apagan del todo el valor de una luz tenue como aquélla.

We'd given up thinking about things as though we understood them, or even as though we could, and committed to living our days like a continuous length of thread we were each spinning.

He doesn't look like a gangster, but then he's not the office worker type, either...some kind of entrepreneur maybe, or, - wait, I've got it! He looks like he writes manga! Either that or a chiropractor, I guess.

I wondered whether I was crying because I was sad, or because I had just been released from my sadness.

beyond that, I couldn't say. There's no point thinking about the future. That

I've no idea how many young women like this there are in the world, but I kind of wonder if those oddly vague people you see in department stores during the day, women who don't quite seem to be students or people who work on their own, might not be the same. I know very well that I used to be like that myself, that I used to walk around with the same utterly unfocused look in my eye.

To the extend that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.

But I have my life, I'm living it. It's twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there's something there.

Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.

Ambiguity is the essence of Irish writing, I think.

Irish English is a very different beast from English English or American English. Very different. The way in which Irish writers are only too happy to infuse their language with ambiguity is very different. An English writer will try to be clear. Orwell said that good prose should be like a pane of glass. The Irish writer would say: 'No no, it's a lens, it distorts everything.'

I noted that it is sometimes hard to tell whether you are being killed or saved by the hands that turn your life upside down.

one of the worst things about electronic communication. Lacking facial expression, tone of voice, or context, words could be taken any number of ways. With only one cryptic word now, I was discouraged.

She sighed as he left, wondering why it was becoming so difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys.

I told her that's exactly how I felt, but I didn't know

We walk towards nowhere, one foot in front of the other.

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

Evil was a stupid word. It had the same sort of sense, largely meaningless, amorphous, diffuse, wooly, as applied to "love." Everyone had a vague idea of what it meant but none could precisely have defined it. It seemed, in a way, to imply something supernatural.

Games were being played, that was all, and games of which he was largely ignorant and wished to remain so.

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

Contradictory conditions are always present. Evidence