Quotes About Ambiguity

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.

This is my war, and I don't know what side I'm on.

He who is absolutely right is absolutely wrong

What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more.

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

Trent I don't want you to be the guy in the PG-13 movie everyone's *really* hoping makes it happen. I want you to be like the guy in the rated R movie, you know, the guy you're not sure whether or not you like yet. You're not sure where he's coming from. Okay You're a bad man. You're a bad man. You're a bad man, bad man.

You put me through hell. On purpose. Made me suffer. And there's no end in sight. I don't know what the fuck you're doing, ace, but this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shit ain't cutting it with me.

Because the world sometimes conspires against us even as we embrace it. And sometimes the world embraces us, even as we forsake it. Maybe this is God, she thinks. This quiet, easy truth. And religion, the acceptance of it.

They know and do not know, what it is to act or suffer. They know and do not know, that acting is suffering.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

In today's ambiguous world, character means despotism, tyranny, absolute intolerance. At last it is time to admire a lack of character, inner weakness. Our epoch is that of noble doubts, blessed uncertainty, sacred hypersensitivity, divine wishy-washiness.

?wiat si? wyrówna?. Nie ma z?ych i dobrych. Jest wielki, nieszcz?sny t?um depcz?cy sobie po nogach. Jest noc. Noc oboj?tno?ci, noc apatii, noc chaosu.

my gray zone is starting to include poetry here white is not absolute white black is not absolute black the edges of these non-colors adjoin

Here a hint, there a clue, and ever more unanswered questions.

The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.

If everyone were allowed to interpret the ambiguous passages for themselves, their conclusions might diverged wildly. People would move apart in as many different directions as there were people, the community would fragment, and the world swallow up the pieces and who was to say the great revelation would not then vanish as if it had never been?