Quotes About Ambiguity

Even though I'm super into tarot and astrology, I don't believe in knowing too much about the future.

People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

I do remember a lot of teachers saying I would do well on TV, as I have a 'modern look,' but I never knew how to take that.

A nanny is a woman who lives in an apartment, but the apartment is not her own. She raises children, teaches them how to walk, how to speak; she gives them food - but these children are not her children. So she is in a very ambiguous place.

Mercedes and Ferrari are working as one team these days. Sometimes it is difficult to tell which is which.

How did you say goodbye to someone who wasn't exactly gone

What was the correct procedure here? Was he supposed to kiss me? Was I supposed to let him? Had that been the real price of my salad?

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

Relax. No one else knows what they're doing either.

The purpose of myth, therefore, is to both reveal and conceal. To tell what we have seen and disguise it, to mask God's forked tongue.

Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.

Uncertainty was a sacrament and the quest for miles meant that we'd never know where or how we'd end the day.

He would forever be suspended between two lands, never whole.

If you can't be free, be a mystery.

If you can't be free, be a mystery.

If you cannot be free, be a mystery.

Although I didn't hear the door swing

You have blundered into an adult existence you don't understand, and you can't tell whether you planned it this way or whether you screwed up big-time, though it's too late either way.

They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.

The news was somewhere between an incredible accomplishment and a huge disaster.

Though it may not be a suitable comment for even this confidential record, I thought, by no means for the first time in such surroundings, what an odd way it was for people of opposite sexes to spend the evening, when, after all, there was nothing ahead that any of us could be sure of but infirmity, illness, and death.

The sheer oddity of life seems to me of more and more importance, because more and more the pretense is that life is charted, predictable, and controllable.

There's something wrong… There's something wrong with almost everything.