Quotes about Ambivalence

Now I wanted to be acknowledged, but I feared it.

Too good to be true, I will think. Too good for this earth. Good, be thou my evil.

She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan, sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of how shall I say, I dont know.

Excitement doesn't knock at your door any less when you're older than when you're younger. It's just that when you're younger, you're more likely to open the door and let it in. With age, you start growing ambivalent about excitement. You might say that you want it, but at the same time you're not sure you have the energy for it. Yet a surefire way to diminish your energy is to deny the Ultimate energy pill, which is participation in life itself.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

There was a tolerably fair sprinkling of young folks, and another fair sprinkling of gentlemen and ladies who were non-committal as to age, being neither actually old or absolutely young.

You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

I like progress but I hate change.

I'm glad and I'm sorry. I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still more pleasant may come after, but you can never be sure. And it's so often the case that it isn't more pleasant.