Quotes About Ambiguity

The word maybe was beginning to annoy me, because the only thing that was fixed was that maybe would be with me for ever. Maybe

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This

Le gustaban los corrillos apretados y lo desconocido. La agridulce sensación de la incertidumbre: Ganar o perder.

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words so damning and brilliant.

Not that it was a living hell. It wasn't. But it sure as hell wasn't heaven, either.

like regret in the shadow of trees and in the glow of an anarchist's suit collection

The color white is not always what it seems to be. Watch for white handkerchiefs, handmade altars, homemade gumbo, and light summer dresses.

The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.

Like most people, I feel ambiguous guilt for my inferiors, ambiguous envy for my superiors, and mandatory low-spirits about the system itself.

Senza mai guardare dove sta andando, la gente si muove attraverso qualcosa di predisposto, armata di bugie. Non vede l'ora di raggiungere luoghi dai quali è appena tornata, o si rammarica di aver fatto cose che non ha ancora fatto. Signori delle bugie e della spazzatura - di ogni sorta di merda e di spazzatura. [...] Lo prendiamo ancora in culo ogni mattina come tutti gli altri - ma in questi giorni la cosa finisce in un baleno.

Beauty, extreme yet ambiguously available; this very roughly, was what Nicola's entrance to the Black Cross had said to Keith. But he didn't know the nature -- he didn't know the brand -- of the availability.

The sun was looking down on this, but not quite sincerely.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

We are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.

Power, it seems, is one of those terms we all understand and can explain--until asked to do so.

Some things, she said, are best not known for sure, Lord Trentham.

It would cease to be a danger if we could define it

How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.

What did you do. Hopkins, after you had made certain that you had made certain of nothing?

I may be on the side of the Angels ,but don't think for one second that I am one of them.

las mujeres suelen interesarse por todo lo que es nebuloso, misterioso, indefinido.

The past and the present are within my field of inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.

I don't know what the future is. I don't know-what I'm supposed to want.

Como seriam eruditos alguns autores se soubessem tudo o que está em seus próprios livros!) Por isso, seu texto costuma ter um sentido tão indeterminado que os leitores quebram em vão a cabeça na tentativa de descobrir o que eles pensam afinal. Eles simplesmente não pensam.