Quotes About Ambiguity

The confused murmur of his nights began to rise, expected but not familiar

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

One foot in the door, the other one in the gutter; The sweet smell that they adore, I think I'd rather smother

I can't predict the future.

You know, we don't always understand what we're living inside of, or how it will matter. We can guess all we want and prepare, too, but we never know how it's going to turn out.

The pilgrims and the lost often did look the same,

I rarely knew what Jock was thinking. He worked hard, as

my doubt is loud,

How are you?" she asks. The world's most innocuous question, impossible to answer.

that came when you knew that if life didn't go exactly

would have liked to kiss her on the cheek but he had no idea if the Kiowas kissed one another or if so, did grandfathers kiss granddaughters. You never knew. Cultures were mine fields. He patted the air with a gentle motion. Sit. Stay.

Fantaseamos lo que no entendemos...Las situaciones que menos se comprenden excitan el inconsciente

Confusion is not a bad thing. It's not doubt that makes a man mad. It's certainty.

No es breve luz aquella caduca exhalación, pálida estrella, que en trémulos desmayos pulsando ardores y latiendo rayos, hace más tenebrosa la obscura habitación con luz dudosa?

Somos del mismo gremio. -Los dos somos artistas, papi. Cuando bailaba era igual. Yo con mis bailes eróticos. Era la estrella del Palermo. Nadie sabía si era verdad o mentira. Ni yo misma sabía si lo que bailaba era erotismo real o fingía el erotismo. -Igual que yo con mis novelas. Ni yo mismo sé lo que es cierto y lo que es mentira. -Al final todo es verdad. -Uhmm. -Eres una puta, Pedro. Eres tan puta como yo. Vendes una mentira y finges que es verdad.

She was secretly amused by the man who managed to give the impression of moving in all directions while standing still.

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

I have no idea where I am going, she thought, but I have begun.

Is it the darkness that is light, or the luminous that is dark? A choice must be made. The same is true of history; people choose what to see, what is light and what is darkness.

Perhaps nothing had happened. Perhaps everything had happened.

At the time of this writing, I do not know whether I will live much longer, and you don't know what I'm talking about.

Why are people so fucked up?" I asked "Maybe you do need college, Poiter," Everett said. "You want to know why people are so fucked up? Son, that's about the only question I can answer with even a small measure of authority. It's because they're people. People, my friend, are worse than anybody.