Quotes About Ambiguity

you are not dead, but you are not alive.

Some people grow up knowing what they want to do; they color inside the lines, study at the right school, check off the boxes, and in the end they are handed the grown-up life they've dreamed of. That's mostly bullshit, for the record. Trying to figure out what you want to do, who you want to be, is messy as hell; the best anyone can hope for is to figure out the next step.

Earlier you made her sound like a victim. Now she sounds like a villain." "Everybody's both.

Great system: the poison and the antidote come in the same bottle

This weird translation of feelings into gestures which belied words and words which belied gestures, confused and disoriented her. She needed someone to tell her whether to laugh or to cry.

As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.

Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is

Ghost towns filled with sad people who settled for what life offered them. The road unfurls before us. Everything is possible. I feel sick to my stomach.

Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

Prediction is difficult, especially the future.

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

Science can't tell you why anything happens.

Nobody knows what is life and still alive

He steadied himself by resting one palm on her thigh and the other on the armrest, and rose to his knees. "I'll be damned.""Possibly. But not today, I think.

The problem with heroes and villains is that it's not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one.

One can lose themselves in the twilight, when there are no colors to guide the way.