Quotes About Ambiguity

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

I'd love to do like a modern day 'Shining' and play the Jack Nicholson role.

Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me.

In Japan, sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at.

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.

I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

When I joined 'Kumkum,' I was excited because the character had grey shades.

When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later. That's like life: it is so precious because death is always beckoning.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Tener fe es sostener una loca y desproporcionada lucha con las más descomunales y antojadizas fuerzas que nos rodean para obtener al cabo algo tan mísero, nebuloso e incierto como es la esperanza. Esperar que un día… ¿Que un día qué?

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

The mouse ducks (yes, actually ducks)

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.

it is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

It wasn't clear what "emerging" meant, or how these markets might "emerge." Still, it sounded awfully good, and it helped cloud the fact that the emerging bond an investor bought actually was a Peruvian loan that hadn't paid any interest since the 1800s.

Which came out of the opened door—the lady or the tiger?

Melchior. What good does that do? Moritz. What good does it have to do?——We are fit for nothing more, neither good nor evil.

When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

Meanwhile, the duck's body entered the funnel's black terminal cloud and joined an indescribably melange of dead and dying.

I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

Gabriele non vedeva dinanzi a sé che un inizio, il crocicchio dove le vie si dividevano. Cinque passi più avanti tutto era nebbia e tenebra. Ma avviene in ogni vita così: prima della decisione nulla è più irreale che la meta.

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