Quotes About Ambiguity

Well, if you are to help me with my work, you had better get used to stories without endings. True stories seldom have endings.

It was a kindness that was hard to understand... and the most selfishness she's ever shown.

The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex. It means whatever you want it to mean.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

No no no no yes yes yes no maybe

Years later I'd understand that a mark of adulthood is the ability to live with uncertainty. But back then I wanted to figure everything out, myself most of all.

Years later I'd understand that a mark of adulthood is the ability to live with uncertainty.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

We don't really know where this goes, and I'm not sure we really care.

I always loved twilight: it was the only time I had the feeling that something important could happen.

the melancholy of a world eternally under construction...

If a film needed an exotic backdrop… Chinatown could be made to represent itself or any other Chinatown in the world. Even today, it stands in for the ambiguous Asian anywhere.

To young, inexperienced minds there seems to be a kind of fatal charm about the vague, the distant, and the mysterious.

To a man like Roger Barlow, the whole world just seemed to be a complicated joke … everything was always up for grabs, capable of dispute; and religion, laws, principle, custom – these were nothing but sticks from the wayside to support our faltering steps.

Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

Life is filled with trapdoors.

We stopped at a door that read GUIDANCE. I always found that term wonderfully vague. The dictionary definition of the word is "advice or information aimed at resolving a problem." In short, an attempt to help. But to us students, the word—this office—is far more frightening. It conjures up our college prospects, growing older, getting a real job—our future. Guidance seemed more like a term for cutting us loose. Spoon

You die. It's over. But right now, I'm not sure.

An awkward impasse. No one knew exactly how to say good-bye. A wave? A handshake? A kiss?