Quotes About Ambiguity

Everyone wants answers and wants to know what the timeline is. Unfortunately, it's a complex situation, and we don't have the final answers yet.

It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.

There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.

...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes.

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you begin to speculate, and that is what I want.

But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.

Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything.

I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.

It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.

If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to say. And I'd even go on and say, I don't even think so.

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it.

I don't think it's important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don't really want to be anything in particular.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?

I've been telling myself this was being alive. This here. This…hiding. Wishing. Dreaming. Wanting. And all the while, what does anyone else see when they look at me?