Quotes About Ambiguity

La vida es una nebulosa.

Y a las veces su carácter será el de no tenerlo

Los hombres no sucumbimos a las grandes penas ni a las grandes alegrías, y es porque esas penas y esas alegrías vienen embozadas en una inmensa niebla de pequeños incidentes. Y la vida es esto, la niebla. La vida es una nebulosa.

Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.

The word success is an ambiguous word. Success with respect to the outside? Or success with respect to oneself? And if it is a success with respect to the outside, then how do you evaluate it? Very often outside success is irrelevant, wrong, and misplaced. So how can one talk about it? Externally, you may think I am successful because people write about some aspects of my work. But that is an external judgment. And I have no idea as to how to value that judgment.

I must confess I get lost with all these shades of grey.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous." —Chinese proverb

None of us knew how to come back from this moment. This was where the script ended and we all had to improvise.

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

Sve budu?nosti imaju jednu veliku vrlinu: nikad ne izgledaju onako kako ih zamišljaš.

La vita umana è una strana cosa: la meta non si trova alla fine, bensì a metà strada; corri, ma forse hai oltrepassato da tempo il segno d'arrivo senza sapere, senza accorgerti che l'hai fatto né quando, e forse non lo saprai mai. Perciò continui a correre.

I'm not a good man, but I'm not a bad one, either.

Hansu was not an ordinary person, and he was capable of actions she could neither see nor understand.

The past has come apart events are vagueing the future is inexploitable

there's an epidemic of ambivalence about many things these days.

Mystics seem to have no shame about contradicting themselves left and right. They blithely proclaim that the cure for pain is in the pain itself and that the cry of longing is the sigh of merging. That's because the path of the mystic reconciles contradictory propositions (such as harrowing sorrow and radical amazement) and blesses us with an extended capacity to sit with ambiguity, to treasure vulnerability, to celebrate paradox as the highest truth.

He stood right in front of me and pinched my arm and said, Can I see your room? Such relief. Even the pinch was good. I understood completely about needing to hurt someone at the same time that you are giving them something.

He called the feeling between us "weird," and I had nothing to add. I kissed the backs of his legs and they sang. He reached around and pulled me down onto his back and I lay there, like on the warm sand of a beach. Just that. That is all there is. That is the whole point of everything.

You seem incredibly faraway to me, like someone on the other side of a lake. A dot so small that it isn't male or female or young or old; it is just smiling.

It doesn't really feel like driving when you don't know where you are going. There should be an option on the car for driving in place, like treading water. or at least a light that shines between the brake lights that you can turn on to indicate that you have no destination.

Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.