Quotes About Ambiguity

In Sweden I am considered the Finnish-Norwegian, in Norway Finnish-Swedish, and in Finland Swedish-Norwegian. I've never really belonged anywhere.

It's not all 'Jane Eyre' out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she's one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous.

None of my on-screen roles have been outright negative. They have all been grey, and that is how it is in reality, too. None of us are nice and sweet 24/7.

I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.

Everything in life is a double-edged sword.

Yeah, I don't know whether it would be a coach's dream to coach the world No1 or a double-edged sword.

There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I'm always interested in contradictions.

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

In other words, our spiritual journey occurs not in spite of the ambiguous and problematic experience of our actual life but because of it.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

It's funny, I've decided 'Hallelujah' is a kind of Rorschach test for people, because everyone has a different reaction to it and to what I'm doing. I just sang it, and whatever came out was just natural and spontaneous and maybe that's the best thing, because there's a kind of enigma, both in the meaning of the words and the way Leonard Cohen said them, that catches people's attention.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

How can we live without the unknown before us?

Hope springs eternal. Just remember: so does evil. Sometimes they are impossible to tell apart.

It is not my intention to make anything comprehensible. I am of the opinion that there are sufficient paintings which one understands after a shorter or longer delay, and that therefore some incomprehensible painting would now be welcome. I am at pains to deliver such, as far as possible.

I have undertaken to to find an explanation for something that can't possibly be explained-Nero Wolfe

The way my life goes, I can't tell if there are pits in my cherries or cherries among my pits, philosophically speaking.

what I did, I didn't want

La ambigüedad desempeña un papel central e imprescindible, y su carácter universal no refleja otra cosa que su inevitabilidad.

La ambigüedad, lejos de ser una carga, representa la clave de un lenguaje óptimo flexible. Y esta propiedad es seguramente universal.