Quotes about Ambiguity

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.

A poem… begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness.

it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are!

He was like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead to.

You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.

You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual There!—yet

They made no love that day, but when he left her outside the sad door on the Zurichsee and she turned and looked at him he knew her problem was one they had together for good now.

In this industry, it's very fickle; you don't know where you are.