Quotes About Ambiguity

Mevlut wasn't sure whether the strangeness was in his mind or in the world.

they were no longer quite sure what they should be laughing at or objecting to.

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

The trouble with coins is, when one face is up, the other face is down.

In my dreams, said Ender, I'm never sure whether I'm really me.

No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next.

The ambiguity of flesh made for a vastness of possibility that simply could not exist in a binary world.

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

Heck, everything we decide will be wrong, said Step, because no matter what we do, something bad will happen later. So I refuse to regret any of it.

It was as if the boundary between friendship and love was so thin and imperceptible that one could cross it without even knowing it was there.

don't even know why I do what I do. How can I know what other people's true purposes are? There's no hope

Her action in defending Marcão meant one thing to him and something quite different to her; it was so different that it was not even the same event.

The message was mixed, yet clear: Touch me not, thou mortal, but yes, I will bestow this smile on you. You are mine, but I am not yet yours.

No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next. Yet

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

I felt exasperated by her, always turning, always changing, always making me feel as if I was looking for oxygen--how much like fresh air and how much, at the same time, like drowning.