Quotes About Ambiguity

I shot an arrow into the air,It fell to earth, I knew not where.

If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.

She felt as though everything were beginning to be double in her soul, just as objects sometimes appear double to over-tired eyes. She hardly knew at times what it was she feared, and what she hoped for. Whether she feared or desired what had happened, or what was going to happen, and exactly what she longed for, she could not have said.

He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure whether what he said was very witty or very stupid.

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

He spoke with such complete self-confidence that no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. He

It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal measure life was slipping away from me.

No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

When he puts his mouth against her shoulder she is uncertain whether her shoulder has given or received the kiss. All her flesh is like a mouth.

It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.

I suffer from the Virgo disease: nothing I did was pure enough. I was never sure whether I wanted disciples or partisans. I was never sure if I wanted Parliament or a hermitage.

Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

Ecco che lei torna alle parole che decidono, alle parole che dividono: migliore, peggiore; giusto, ingiusto; bianco, nero. E tutto invece non è che una caduta, una lunga caduta: come nei sogni...

pues no todo en el fuego es claridad, sino también leña bruta, y ceniza, y humo...

Let's see what you've got—as the actress said to the bishop

Doing nothing is very hard to do–you never know when you're finished.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

Muitas coisas se resolverão neste encontro, ou nenhuma.

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.

I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.

In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.