Quotes About Ambiguity

Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.

Not all things that cast man shadows were men.

Where all is fog, a blind man with a stick is not entirely at a disadvantage.

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

You live in the same kind of grayness as the filthy stuff that formed you.

If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter.

I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

It seems to me that maybe It pretty much always means, no

In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people.

What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.

The symbologist made a cryptic sign. "That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl.

On the news tonight the new President said there's no reason for anyone to worry about the situation. He didn't say which situation.

I suspected other people were better at living than me. Did others elbow their way through fog, rising out of it somedays, relief blending with terror at its return?

I'm not really interested in the black and white, the 'goodies and baddies.' I find the complexity of the gray areas more compelling, more intriguing. As I have said before, there are angels and demons in all of us, and I am interested in the relationship between the two within the 'ordinary' person.

I don't know," he said softly. "I look into the future and I don't see anything else. It's like it's this big blank space where I should be.

When I used to dream about that somebody they never had a face. It was more like a feeling.

La poésie […] n'existe, ne s'absente, ne surgit, que pour refuser la réponse. Et pour s'approcher de la question[…] elle ne réponde pas aux questions, elles les pose.

The computer is an enigma. Not in its making or its usage, but because man appears incapable of foreseeing anything about the computer's influence on society and humanity. We have most likely never dealt with such an ambiguous apparatus, an instrument that seems to contain the best and the worst, and, above all, a device whose true potentials we are unable to scrutinize.

Unless we define happiness in a rather sad way, namely that it is to be like everyone else, which is what the autonomous ego could be resolved into - nobody, it must be said, knows what it is.

Ainsi le raisonnement avance-t-il droit sur ses deux pieds boiteux

I don't know if I'm an action star or if that's just how things are shaping up. I would hate to be boxed into that forever, but it's probably just a strength as far as my type goes, and I'm fine with that.

Yo quiero ser un escritor y sexualmente soy un híbrido raro.