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Quotes About Ambiguity

I want my games to teach a message about life, by presenting situations where the answer isn't a clear yes or no.
~ Hideo Kojima
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
~ Margaret Drabble
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
~ Milan Kundera
Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary.
~ Janusz Korczak
This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.
~ Diane Keaton, Then Again
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
~ Allan Kaprow
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.
~ Michael Savage
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Life must go on; I forget just why.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.
~ Michel Houellebecq, Platform
The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.
~ Justin Timberlake
Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.
~ James Hollis
When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
But I have my life, I'm living it. It's twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there's something there.
~ Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake
'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.
~ Taylor Momsen
In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.
~ George R. R. Martin
Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.
~ Carl Van Vechten
Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
~ John Hurt
Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them. ... A life without conclusions is painful.
~ Soseki Natsume
What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.
~ Walter de La Mare
i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
~ Walter Isaacson
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
~ Miguel de Cervantes
I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn't. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn't.
~ Raymond Smullyan