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Quotes About Ambiguity

Kaikki on hyvin epävarmaa, ja juuri se tekee minut levolliseksi. - Tuu-tikki
~ Tove Jansson
You believe it's cold, but if you build yourself a snowhouse it's warm. You think it's white, but at times it looks pink, and another time it's blue. It can be softer than anything, and then again harder than stone. Nothing is certain.
~ Tove Jansson
It's the unexpressed that interests me, he thought. I've been drawing too explicitly; it's a mistake to clarify everything.
~ Tove Jansson
Hemul sa pomaly zobudil a zistil, že je to on sám. Želal si vÅ¡ak byÃ…Â¥ niekým, koho nepozná.
~ Tove Jansson
I very nearly wished that I had been born a Hatti-fattener under the Hattifatteners' vague and drifting stars, and that no one expected anything else of me than that I also should be drifting along toward an unattainable horizon, never speaking to anyone and never mindful to anything.
~ Tove Jansson
I very nearly wished that I had been born a Hattifattener under the Hattifatteners' vague and drifting stars, and that no one expected anything else of me than that I also should be drifting along toward an unattainable horizon, never speaking to anyone and never mindful of anything.
~ Tove Jansson
All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.
~ Tove Jansson
The plan is: there is no plan.
~ Unknown
point-non-plus.
~ Unknown
Sometimes this poem tells itself nothing matters, All's a joke. Relax, it says, everything's Taken care of. (A poem can lie.)
~ Tracy K. Smith
The point is, you won't necessarily know Whether you're living a science fiction reality.
~ Tracy K. Smith
My point is, it's not cut and dried, black and white, good and bad. It lives where everything lives: somewhere in the middle. Where everything lives, where all the rest of us live, everyone but you.
~ Tracy Letts
Thank God we can't see the future, we'd never get out of bed.
~ Tracy Letts
BARBARA: You're never coming back to me, are you, Bill? BILL: Never say never, but . . . BARBARA: But no. BILL: But no.
~ Tracy Letts
Gracias a Dios que no podemos adivinar el futuro. Si nos dijeran lo que iba a pasar, no nos levantaríamos nunca de la cama.
~ Tracy Letts
There's a limited number of Messengers, you see, and no guarantee that any will stay a Messenger.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
The gym is always open, except when it's closed.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
~ Trevor Dunn
despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.
~ Trinh T. Minh-ha
Yo escribo este manifiesto para mostrar que pueden ejecutarse juntas las acciones opuestas, en una sola y fresca respiración; yo estoy en contra de la acción; a favor de la continua contradicción, y también de la afirmación, no estoy ni a favor ni en contra y no lo explico porque odio el sentido común.
~ Tristan Tzara
It was a face beyond childhood, yet this side of belonging to a woman. I thought her anywhere between sixteen and thirty; as it turned out, she was shy two months of her nineteenth birthday.
~ Truman Capote
Are we — um, does this mean —
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Hmmm,' she said. 'How long do you think it'll last?' 'How would I know?!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Hmm. I don't know if that's a 'yes' or a 'go eat worms,'" Rollan admitted.
~ Tui T. Sutherland