Quotes About Ambiguity

I do not really understand. What was happening inside you? I did not have a clue.

To the left of the rubber boots in the front lie the corpse of the mask and the button. I leave it all up to you. I shall have returned home a step ahead of you. I pray with all my heart that you will come back with your usual expression, as if nothing has happened.…

I was dazzled perhaps by the double aspect of the mask—was it the negation of my real face or actually a new face?—and I had been obliged to take an unavoidably circuitous road because I had forgotten the essential point that even this daze was a form of action.

as far as tomorrow is concerned, even the weather report isn't very reliable, you know.

I could make nothing of the terribly vague answers I got, which I could believe or doubt as I liked.

How can I—how can an insignificant little dewdrop on the grass ever aspire to the sun? How would it ever come to pass?" "Indeed; there's no comparing them, after all. But the dewdrop does capture the vast, seething ball of fire within itself, doesn't it?

Oedipus had to abandon his certainty, his clarity, and supposed insight in order to become aware of the dark ambiguity of the human condition.

It is surprising how many times a good feeling can be confused with a bad one. Often one is unsure which feeling it really is until much later.

There is a fine line between neutral and amoral. In fact, there may be no line there at all.

You are an enigma wrapped in a sticky bun.

Are you not answering because you don't want me to know or are you not answering because you want to annoy me? That is a complicated question with an equally complicated answer.

This was the beginning of something that might lead to everything or nothing at all. To

This was the beginning of something that might lead to everything or nothing at all.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I'm not myself, she said and then laughed maniacally, but God knows who I am.

I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.

I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

They call me the confuser. Is he a man... is he a woman? Ooh, I'm not sure if I mind.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.