Quotes About Ambiguity

It is a fine thing, to set your sights on crystal towers and golden thrones," Hans Peter said quietly. "But first you had better see what lurks within those towers, and what sits on those thrones.

it may rain or it may shine, probably at the same time. (Lamentations 5:23)

Gerçek nedir? Rüyada gördüklerimizin deÄŸil de, uyan?k iken gördüklerimizin gerçek olduÄŸunu nas?l iddia edebili?iz? Bu sorunu bir Çin ÅŸairi ÅŸöyle aç?klam??t?r: Geçen gece rüyamda kelebek olduÄŸumu gördüm. Ama ÅŸimdi, bir kelebek olduÄŸunu düÅŸünen bir insan m? ya da insan olduÄŸunu düÅŸünen bir kelebek mi olduÄŸumu kestiremiyorum.

I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

So I thought. Are you happy? What's that? Don't you know yet? But who really knows what it is? Dancing on the head of a pin, maybe.

There was too little solid ground under one's feet.

He it is still and yet it is not he any longer. His features have become uncertain and faint, like a photographic plate from which two pictures have been taken. Even his voice sounds like ashes.

Unser Fehler ist, dass wir weder wirklich dumm noch wirklich gescheit sind. Immer so dazwischen, wie Affen in den Ästen. Das macht müde und manchmal traurig. Der Mensch muss wissen, wohin er gehört.

G?lm?kd? yax?? el?dim? – Joan soru?du. – Bilmir?m, Joan. – Bilirs?n... Bilm?lis?n!

Kaži mi, Georg - pitam kad smo skrenuli u Hakenštrase, - Jesi li ti stvarno sre?an? Georg Krol skine šešir ne?emu nevidljvom u no?i. -Drugo pitanje! - kaže on. - Koliko se može izdržati sede?i na vrhu igle?

Her mouth speaks words I do not understand. Nor do I fully understand her eyes; they seem to say more than we anticipated when we came here.

It is not given to human beings—happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable—to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

In other words, as long as man is an ambiguous creature he can never banish anxiety; what he can do instead is to use anxiety as an eternal spring for growth into new dimensions of thought and trust. Faith poses a new life task, the adventure in openness to a multidimensional reality.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

I don't know. There isn't always an explanation for everything.

He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.

Life had seemed so simple that morning when I had wakened and found the false spring… But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

Remember, everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong." - "You think so?" - "I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then

I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am?

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

I knew I did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes. Nobody had mentioned what the stakes were. It was all right with me.

I don't know, I said. There isn't always an explanation for everything. Oh, isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. That's awfully nice.

I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into.