Quotes About Ambiguity

Who was he mourning? She didn't know. A whole generation maybe.

Sometimes. And sometimes not.

But the truth of the matter is that it tends to raise as many questions as it answers.

we usually have only vague indicators to rely upon.

Everyone understands, though, that a great deal of uncertainty about what to do for people will always remain.

In the face of the unknown—the always nagging uncertainty about whether, under complex circumstances, things will really be okay—

and you will find that the larger, starker, and more painful difficulty is the still abundant uncertainty that exists over what should be done in many situations.

But doubts nevertheless creep in.

Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.

It's difficult to talk about double messages without having a twin tongue.

I knew what it was like to be haunted by the ghost of a self one wished to be, but only half-sensed.

I have often wondered why the farthest-out position always feels so right to me; why extremes, although difficult and sometimes painful to maintain, are always more comfortable than one plan running straight down a line in the unruffled middle.

It is sometimes both the curse and the blessing of the poet to perceive without yet being able to order those perceptions, and that is another name for Chaos.

He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone of melancholy and pity for all mortal beings runs through this uncertain tale.

KURT. Then he does love you! ALICE. Probably. But that doesn't stop him from hating me. KURT

There just didn't seem to be anything to hold on to. We weren't going anywhere, and we weren't pulling away. We were just floating, suspended in liquid. And I guess I want more. And I don't know what he wants.

I wasn't cold, I wasn't anything at all I was only a blur.

I caught his drift, but I wasn't going to argue for a single second. Just get me to the Hampshire House, that's all I cared about. Besides, how could I say, No, I'm not a prositute. I'm Mrs. Frank Sinatra out for an early morning walk in the rain?

contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.

aun sin certeza, los problemas imposibles de resolver pueden, sin embargo, resolverse de manera aproximada

Quien crece, nunca sabe de antemano si se adentra en un saco, en un túnel, o si penetra, sin posibilidad de retorno, en una zona de silencio; o si, en cambio, emergerá de ella aún más poderoso.

Lo mejor será que hables lo menos posible de tus planes. Uno ya no sabe adónde te puede llevar una conversación, ni qué puedes esperar de personas a las que conoces de toda la vida.

Another life could have happened to us. I know you know that. But here we are, still a flame held close to untouched lips. And I'll write a dozen different endings before I'm done.

I cannot be assured of exactly what I created be it madness and monster or beauty and light.