Quotes About Ambiguity

jed talks about the foreseeable future and how little there is that we can foresee.

notice how fickle things can be now I'm better, now I'm worse nowhere is it written how to deal with this

I mean, what if love isn't a yes-or-no question? It's not either you're in love or you're not.

What took you so long? Elijah doesn't know what to say. Shrugs were invented to answer such questions, so that's just what Elijah does.

Where did you go? Around. The weather was good? Yeah. It didn't rain? Nope. That's good. Yeah. Talking like this is like throwing small, round stones __ nothing can be built from them, except perhaps the cairn of a lost conversation.

I told him I wasn't feeling well. When what I meant was that I'm feeling uneasy. Uncertain. Calling everything into question and wanting to bend it into the answer I want. I don't think that in itself is love. But it can definitely be a side effect -Rhiannon

No tengo narices a decirle que esa es la manera incorrecta de afrontar la vida. Siempre va a haber más preguntas. Cada respuesta desemboca en más preguntas. La única manera de sobrevivir es dejar alguna sin respuesta

i said 'i don't know' because that had become my answer to everything.

I need to figure things out. But how can you figure out something that doesn't have a shape? It's the shapeless things - like love, like attraction - that are the hardest to map -Rhiannon

most people don`t know my name, and nobody knows what to call me in relation to you.

It doesn't do any good to say, 'This is what it means.' When you are spoon fed a film, people instantly know what it is. I like films that leave room to dream.

It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening.

It is a poem about the necessity of choosing that somehow, like its author, never makes a choice itself—that instead repeatedly returns us to the same enigmatic, leaf-shadowed crossroads.

It is what it is," which is ubiquitous now and means absolutely nothing, as far as we can see. "Isn't that the state motto of South Dakota?" I said the second or third time I heard it.

And as she locked the door behind her, a deeply hidden part of her wondered uneasily if she was locking the wolf into its cage . . . or herself safely outside it.

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

Some dreams matter. Most don't. Often it can be hard to know which might be which.

Readers will easily recognize the cover of a book they've read, but in a cafe that man over there, is that...is that...well, it's hard to tell - doesn't he have long hair? - oh, he's gone.

When you come to a fork in the road take it

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

I do feel comforted to discover I'm not the only person on this earth who has no idea what life is for, nor what is to be done with all this time aside from filling it.

As a fact it was, in my mind, at one and the same time absolutely true and obviously untrue, and perhaps only children are able to accommodate double-faced facts like these.

Life is complex, conceptually dominated by binaries but never wholly contained by them.