Quotes About Ambiguity

Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'

To be an actor is to be ambiguous in every form, which is a very hard way to live. You represent desire: the desire of the director and the desire of the audience, even if it's a subconscious desire. If a director is to work with you for two months, he must be in love with you in some way or another.

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

It was weird. Like, people came up to me and knew me as Daredevil before any footage had come out. I remember a guy on the subway being like, 'You're Charlie Cox. You're Daredevil.' And I was like, 'Yeah...?' I was barely Daredevil. I hadn't even signed the contract, you know?

When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.

there is a fundamental messiness to the nature of the good.

Nobody knows anything about life and there is NO point in defining life.

Ich beklage mich bitter darüber, dass Liebe und Hass so dicht beieinander liegen. Ach, ich beklage es, dass man nie wirklich weiß, ob man gehasst oder geliebt wird

When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.

Things in law tend to be black and white. But we all know that some people are a little bit guilty, while other people are guilty as hell

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays of light in a realm of darkness. . . . They can equally be lethal arrows. Worst of all, at times they can be one or the other. They can even be both at once!

If a writer knows everything that is going to happen, then his book is dead before he begins it.

And here, like everything else, life changed from a whole number into a fraction with a numerator and a denominator, and it became difficult to figure out what was above the line and what was below it

In an ordinary portrait the woman comes forward to meet whoever looks at her, and tells her own story. But here, the real woman lurks a hundred leagues behind the equivocal gaze, entirely closed to herself, a plant rooted yet in the mysterious soil out of which it has come.

Toward an eternal aspiration for vague things.

Van Gogh: "I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream.

As the term wears on I sometimes feel undermined by a sub-textual doppelganger, a shadow Freud haunting the classroom.

out of each pain which we dont mention a chestnut tree grows up and remains mysterious behind us out of each hope which we cherish astar arises and move unattainable in front of us

Recently, everything around me felt familiar yet amiss, like the first time you ride in the back seat of your own car.