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Quotes About Ambiguity

Ne zaman ba?lad???, ne zaman bitece?i belli olmayan zavall? bir sirk; bu biziz i?te.
~ Rafik Schami
Each man or woman was a mansion in a condition between grandness and disrepair, and even in a grand palace, sometimes a room existed in which no one but the resident would ever be welcome.
~ Dean Koontz
The problem with omens is that they never come with an illustrated pamphlet explaining what they mean.
~ Dean Koontz
Everything is more than it seems, but nothing is as mysterious as it appears to be.
~ Dean Koontz
We are coming now to dark shoals in rough waters, to straits so narrow that virtue and wickedness voyage close together and may be at times more difficult than usual to differentiate from each other.
~ Dean Koontz
I don't know whether to call a medical doctor or psychiatrist," she said to Bailey, "but I refuse to call an exorcist.
~ Dean Koontz
Maybe it's not a gift. Maybe it's a curse." "It's a gift." Tapping my head, I said, "I've still got the box it came in.
~ Dean Koontz
She stands just outside her door, puzzled, vaguely disquieted.
~ Dean Koontz
can't see anything inside, just vague shapes, which probably means the glass is heavily tinted and polarized, so it looks clear from inside but not from out here
~ Dean Koontz
he has no fingerprints.
~ Dean Koontz
Like his more engaging story, mine suggests that the world is a more mysterious place than it seems to be most of the time
~ Dean Koontz
This man on sixteen people's directories was named Alexander Gordius. To anyone lacking Woody's unique mind, the name would have looked like just another in a long list. But, to him, it seemed unlikely that someone would be named for both the creator of the Gordian knot and the man who solved it with a sword. To him it looked like a potential false identity.
~ Dean Koontz
Charles Mainway
~ Dean Koontz
If it's not a man that Zenon and Rice have come after, then what have they shot?
~ Dean Koontz
Dorian Purcell
~ Dean Koontz
They followed the light and the shadow, and the light led them forward to light and the shadow led them to darkness. —T. S. ELIOT, Choruses from The Rock, VII
~ Dean Koontz
Drogi panie, ?ycie upÅ'ywa na samych qui pro quo! SÄ… qui pro quo miÅ'oÅ›ci, qui pro quo przyja?ni, qui pro quo polityki, finansów, KoÅ›cioÅ'a, urzÄ™du, handlu, ?on, m??ów...
~ Denis Diderot
I'd thought something was required of me, but I hadn't wanted to find out what it was.
~ Denis Johnson
They started calling it The Rape, and it came to stand for everything: for coming together while falling apart; for loving each other and hating everybody else; for moving at breakneck speed while getting nowhere; for freezing in the streets and melting in the rooms of love.
~ Denis Johnson
What I don't think has been talked about is the fact that in order to be Hell, the people in Hell could never be sure they were really there.
~ Denis Johnson
But every time I entered the place there were veiled faces promising everything and then clarifying quickly into the dull, the usual, looking up at me and making the same mistake.
~ Denis Johnson
Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.
~ Dennis Lehane
Chuck said, Fuck if I know. Cawley stepped up beside them. Quite similar to our clinical conclusion.
~ Dennis Lehane
He's happy. And isn't that the worst of all possible outcomes?
~ Dennis Lehane