Quotes About Ambiguity

Oh God, you make the ones like Brother James who never question, and you make the ones like Esau who never believe, and why do you have to make the in-between ones like me? But

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity," Sunny said, which you will probably recall means something along the lines of "I must admit I don't have the faintest idea of what is going on." Sunny had now said this particular thing three times over the course of her life, and she was beginning to wonder if this was something she was only going to say more and more as she grew older.

Nobody knows anything at all. We have no idea what is happening. We are all bewildered. Someone may say that they understand something, to ourselves or to others, but they are wrong, or guessing, or making it up.

I thought the war was a simple matter, with one side good and the other evil. But the more I read, the less clear it was.

But like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

The passageway was still as dark as a bar of extra-dark chocolate sitting in a planetarium covered in a thick, black blanket

Perhaps you are one of us too, investigating your life and thinking about the world, always feeling native to nowhere. We put on disguises sometimes, to pose as people we are not, to hide, or to blend in, or just to see what will happen, hoping that our secrets will never be found out.

What kind of funny?" I asked her. "Funny like a clown onstage? Or funny like a clown hanging around the entrance to a bank?" -"The bank one.

I'm afraid that's the wicked way of the world. Everything's covered in smoke and mirrors.

Tadu,' Sunny murmured solemnly, which probably meant something along the lines of 'it's a loathsome situation in which we find ourselves.

All of life is just shadows.

I wasn't sad the way a spider isn't an insect.

It was Stephano, or, if you prefer, it was Count Olaf. It was the bad guy.

That's the wicked way of the world. Everything's covered in smoke and mirrors.

Who knows what any of those people or fish would do in our shoes?" Violet said. "It's impossible to know.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

There's a lot that doesn't make sense

The whole thing is like a jigsaw puzzle, but there are too many missing pieces to solve it.

It is why a favorite book feels like an old friend and a new acquittance at the same time, and the reason a favorite author can be familiar figure and a mysterious stranger all at once.

Lemony Snicket

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