Quotes About Ambiguity

There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

She is neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

The rich know not who is his friend.

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

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

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.

I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.

I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.

Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.

Am I eating chicken or tuna?

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.

I felt that the moral side of 'Black and White' was slightly confused. That's why I want the world to be in turmoil.

If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

I was always, like, ambiguous. Is that how you say it? When I was turning 16 I talked to my mom about transitioning and stuff, but that was before I went through puberty.

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.