Quotes About Ambiguity

I am going to kill you - eagerly and with great satisfaction. Perhaps I am speaking figuratively; perhaps not. You will find out. Likely too late.

The journal is written to everyone and thus to no one.

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

Even though it is midnight, dawn is here; even though dawn comes, it is nighttime.

The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of the self leaching away into the cloud.

To process thoughts well is a matter of being able to avoid confusion, detect ambiguities, keep things in mind one at a time, make reliable arguments, become aware of alternatives, and so on.

wet with it. In that same moment the room beyond the doorway was

And ... by the pricking of my thumbs, something morally ambiguous this way comes.

Saw you by the Dumpster, eating a pile of what appeared to be human vomit. You seemed like someone who doesn't take himself too seriously. Not sure if you're male or female, but either way I'd love to smell your genitals. Let me know if you're intrigued.

adrift in private thoughts, anchored to the world by unfamiliar shadows.

The English language was spoken and written—but at the time of Shakespeare it was not defined, not fixed. It was like the air—it was taken for granted, the medium that enveloped and defined all Britons. But as to exactly what it was, what its components were—who knew?

No one had a clue what they were up against: They were marching blindfolded through molasses. And

but everything was a fog. When she tried to focus on a single

Unfortunately, there are no guarentees in life.

I'll go along with pretending this thing between us is temporary and casual, but every time we're together it feels too right to be temporary or casual.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

And the pen, as it were, Dear Reader, is now in my hand, and I am claiming the advantage, taking it for myself, for you will notice that the written word hides the body of the one who writes. For all you know, I might be a MAN in disguise. Unlikely, you say, with all this feminist prattle flying out here and there and everywhere, but can you be sure?

That's the problem with seeing things. Nothing is clear. Feelings, ideas shape what's in front of you. Cézanne wanted the naked world, but the world is never naked. In my work, I want to create doubt." He stopped and smiled at me. "Because that's what we are sure of.

What constitutes rigorous thinking? Is ambiguity dangerous or is it liberating? Why are the sciences regarded as hard and masculine and the arts and the humanities as soft and feminine? And why is hard usually perceived as so much better than soft?

It's a language I've come to hate, because it admits no mystery and no ambiguity into its smug vocabulary, which arrogantly suggests that everything can be known.