Quotes About Ambiguity

It was dark now. A thin moon was visible, a bright portent, but giving no light.

Franca breathed the tranquility of the house, yet it was not tranquil, she breathed its goodness, but it was not good.

But these speculations are too nightmarish. Better to feel 'I shall never know'.

You said you were having fun. Well, yes and no, strictly speaking I was in hell. Perhaps I have always been there. One can have fun in hell.

Nothing happened; yet there were disturbing signs and portents.

I'm being led — on some dark way.

He looked like some unidentified person in a nineteenth-century photograph.

I want to have things clear,' I said. 'You're offering me a sinecure.' 'I'm not sure what that is,' said Madge, 'but I expect it's that.' 'A sinecure is when you get money for doing nothing,' I said. 'But isn't that exactly what you've always wanted?' said Madge.

It could have been suicide or an accident, or perhaps that grey area in between.

You never know if he's being ironic or dyslexic.

Have you ever been in love? ...in a way. It's always 'in a way.

That was the trouble with the Outside. One teetered forever between unpleasant alternatives.

There is nothing straight about you; no motive that hasn't another behind it; no statement that hasn't three meanings.

A really good story does not answer everything. After all, life doesn't answer everything. There remain ambiguities. There remains room for doubt.

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

it would be harmful to humanity to have the explanation known, and that's why we can only guess

An atom blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

His face bore a half smile that gave the illusion of friendliness while making it clear somehow that it was only an illusion.

That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.

Saboreaban la amargura de una despedida que presentían, pero que todavía podían confundir con una reconciliación.

Todo tiembla bajo nuestros pies, no conocemos seguridades, si nos preguntan cómo estamos, la respuesta es «sin novedad» o «más o menos»; nos movemos de una incertidumbre a otra, caminamos cautelosos en una región de claroscuros, nada es preciso, no nos gustan los enfrentamientos, preferimos negociar.

nothing surprises me, I can anticipate others' reactions, I understand what gestures mean, silences, formulas of courtesy, ambiguous responses. Only there do I feel comfortable socially—despite the fact I rarely behave as I'm expected to—because there I know how to behave and my good manners rarely fail me.

Hasta ese momento no tenía conciencia cabal de su doble personalidad, por una parte Diego de la Vega, elegante, melindroso, hipocondríaco, y por otra el Zorro, audaz, atrevido, juguetón. Suponía que en algún punto entremedio estaba su verdadero carácter, pero no sabía cómo era, si ninguno de los dos, o la suma de ambos.

Now the red caps scanned the crowd for whoever might be eyeing them displeasingly. And yet if you turned away, this might also be interpreted as a sign of disrespect. It was hard to know how, or where, to look. No one with eyes, in other words, was safe