Quotes About Ambiguity

How impossibly untangleable is the tangle of what ifs.

Linke und Rechte sind durch die verschiedenen Deutungen charakterisiert, die sie dem zweideutigen Motto geben, das Goya für ein Capricho wählt: "El sueño de la razón produce monstruos." Die Linke übersetzt: schlafen. Die Rechte: träumen.

The modern world is condemned precisely by all that with which modern man seeks to justify it.

Propose solutions? As if the world were not drowning in solutions!

la pureza de quien no llegó a ser lo suficientemente impuro para saber qué cosa es la pureza.

He says it like he's doing it for my protection. But I don't know if he's trying to protect me from this neighborhood, or from Jade. Both are appreciated though, so whatever.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

Life is like a long ride to nowhere in particular.

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

But the future is unknown, and stands before a man like autumnal fogs rising from the swamps; birds fly foolishly up and down in it with flapping wings, never recognizing each other, the dove seeing not the vulture, nor the vulture the dove, and no one knowing how far he may be flying from destruction.

But yet with all this, although, of course, one may admit this, that and the other, may even... and after all, where aren't there incongruities?

The "laughter through tears of sorrow" that Pushkin noted elsewhere in his work is precisely laughter. The images it produces are too deeply ambiguous to bear any social message.

On first speaking to the man, his ingratiating smile, his flaxen hair, and his blue eyes would lead one to say, "What a pleasant, good-tempered fellow he seems!" yet during the next moment or two one would feel inclined to say nothing at all, and, during the third moment, only to say, "The devil alone knows what he is!

You got your ghost turds. Mostly inside." He patted the wall.

You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.

I am like a leaf on a river, riding along the top of the water, not quite floating, not quite drowning. So I can't stop, and I can't control the direction I am going. I can feel the water, but I never know which way I am heading.

Perhaps I am the only person who, asked whether she were a witch or not, could truthfully say, "I do not know. I do know some very strange things have happened to me, or through me." Lady Alice Rowhedge

He felt like a satrap amid all those acres of sheets. But this morning it was different. He was simply lying there and adding up the future like a sum; and whichever way he added it, it came out wrong.

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

Most revolutionaries neither exactly know--nor knew--what they want: Form or Unform.

There are moments in one's life when everything one considers to be a win is for all practical purposes a loss.