Quotes About Ambiguity

Estaban vivos a medias, o quizá menos.

Uncertainty hurts more than ignorance.

Weamish looked here and there to discover the source of the call. Observing Twango and Soldinck, he uttered a wild cry in which defiance seemed mingled with mirth. That is at best an ambiguous response, said Soldinck.

Thus began a break of undetermined length and meaning.

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

I took a slice of melon and perched on the edge of a couch, watching them both, patently uncomfortable with the undefined nature of my role here.

Otra pregunta que también quedará sin respuesta: me parece que no soy más que eso, preguntas sin respuesta.

When you told me about the different subjects--psychology, ethics, philosophy, logic--that's what I most wanted to study. . . It's not so--well--definite, is it? Sometimes it's like a maze, with no answers, only more questions.

I know a sentence that is still more terrifying, more terribly ambiguous than "I am alone," and it is, isolated from any other determining context, the sentence that would say to the other: "I am alone with you." Meditate on the abyss of such a sentence: I am alone with you, with you I am alone, alone in all the world.

Speech frightens me because, by never saying enough, I also say too much.

simply one problem among others.

I think they're even married now. Or dead. Who knows?

In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of ambiguity, paradox, this hunger, danger, darkness, can we find at once ourselves and the power that will free us from ourselves. It is this power of revelation that is the business of the novelist, this journey toward a more vast reality which must take precedence over other claims.

I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was.

It's very hard to live with that," said Eric. "I mean, with the sense that one is never what one seems — never — and yet, what one seems to be is probably, in some sense, almost exactly what one is.

she was disquietingly fluid — fluid, without, however, being able to flow.

A strange smile wavered just around his face, not yet in his face

There have been superficial changes, with results at best ambiguous and, at worst, disastrous. Morally, there has been no change at all and the moral change is the only real one.

I prefer the mist that surrounds me. Yes, I don't like a lot of what I see nowadays.

eunuch's tit—

I was terrified because the good guys were really the bad guys.

Hope is an illusion a dangling carrot something to keep us going but going towards what

The future is unwritten. What will be will be.

They could see from the start that Wilson's idea sat somewhere near the border between possible and hopeless—but on which side of the border?