Quotes About Ambiguity

Whatever the opposite of a plan is, that's what I've got.

But the truth is always a lot fuzzier, hiding in soft focus on the periphery.

Later, I'll replay this conversation and be somewhat unsure of what exactly transpired. Is it my forgiveness or his own we've just been negotiating? But at this moment, I felt vaguely satisfied that a rapprochement of sorts has been reached, and a long-raging battle has been ended. I don't like him any more than I did before, but maybe I hate him a little less, and I guess that's something.

The self-help books and websites haven't come up with a proper title for spouses living in the purgatory that exists before the courts have officially ratified your personal tragedy.

It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.

En tus ojos hay la tristeza de una puesta de sol indecisa." Pasaje de La «tournée» de Dios Enrique Jardiel Poncela

ansiedad es una vivencia de temor ante algo difuso, vago, inconcreto, indefinido, que, a diferencia del miedo,

Era estúpido concebir la vida en términos de blanco o negro: todos éramos víctimas en un momento y verdugos en otro.

Seguir o no seguir (o quién sabe si en realidad seguir y no seguir): tal podría ser la cuestión que rodea a Bartleby.

No sabe que le está hablando, sin saberlo, a su destino marcado por la soledad. Porque a su alrededor ha comenzado a tomar posiciones la niebla y en realidad ya hace rato que ni la última sombra del mundo está interesada en acecharle.

Es posible que haya una respuesta para esa pregunta, pero también que jamás llegue a saber exactamente cuál es.

I don't like ferocious irony but rather the kind that vacillates between disappointment and hope. Okay?

Cuando leo algo que entiendo perfectamente, lo abandono desilusionado. No me gustan los relatos con historias comprensibles. Porque entender puede ser una condena. Y no entender, la puerta que se abre.

El futuro no es ni del todo nuestro ni del todo ajeno.

Si deve poi ricordare che il futuro non è del tutto nostro, né del tutto non nostro

Se em suas idéias baseadas na opinião, você apressadamente afirmar como verdadeiro tudo o que aguarda confirmação e o que não espera confirmação, não escapará ao erro, pois estará mantendo total ambiguidade sempre que se tratar de julgar entre a opinião certa e a errada.

But it was useless to try to explain him in terms of Good and Evil. They were no more than baroque abstractions. Good Business and Bad Business were the elements of the new theology. Dimitrios was not evil. He was logical and consistent; as logical and consistent in the European jungle as the poison gas called Lewisite and the shattered bodies of children killed in the bombardment of an open town.

A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?

I like presenting ambiguous situations. It seems to me a great part of our inner and outer lives are ambiguous, if we're honest about it. Maybe I'm a realist, in that respect.

a sow bug crawls across a desk. If he is turned over on his back, one can observe the tremenous struggle he goes through to get on his feet again. During this interval he has 'purpose' in his life. When he succeeds, one can almost see the look of victory in his eyes. [...] And yet mixed with his smugness is a little disappointment. Now that he has come out on top, life seems aimless.

nothing in Nature is black or white, few solutions are clean and clear; rather, reality, and especially our models of it, possess shades of gray throughout.

The type of undefined is undefined. Why?

My mother explains we are not legless birds, mutants. If she'd had a better education she would have know the word "ambiguous," not quite fish, more than snake, but settling into her limitations, she says we are among the few (the Marines?). The last Tuscarora Eel died a generation ago, so we are left Onondaga Eels among the Tuscarora, opinions dismissed by politics of representation, voices silenced in air and water.

But he is now suddenly untouched by its charms. He seems for the first time to sense that there might be something more. Something is troubling him that he's only just beginning to sense, whose shape he can hardly yet make out in the dim light.