Quotes about Ambiguity

It reminds me of a remark Lucien [Carr] once made to me: He said You never seem to give yourself away completely, but of course dark-haired people are so mysterious.

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

Bonapartist democrat. Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour.

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.

Everyone is wrong about the future.

We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our precious lives nor perfect it in our lives to come

We can never know what to want, because, only living one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor the perfect it in our lives to come.

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 lived to come.

We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, Hermann Göring about the Reichstag fire? Why don't Sophocles, Democritus, and Aristarchus dictate their lost books?