Quotes About Ambiguity

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

We just do not know what is normal.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

It's exciting not knowing what tomorrow, or the next month, or the next year holds.

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

I think that's the great thing about all 'Black Mirror' episodes - it really leaves you with this feeling of not knowing how to feel.

I think it's okay not knowing what you want to become.

To be okay with not knowing is a sign of a mature person and a mature society.

I almost think there's a mystique to not knowing everything about me.

I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.

Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see.

I enjoy being mysterious. I enjoy the notoriety it brings.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.