43 quotes found
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, ...”
“The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.”
“Running through the maze of life, you come across profound ambiguities and complexities. Yet the essence of living a meaningful life remains simple- following your heart and pursuing your life purp...”
“I will complain, yet praise;I will bewail, approve:And all my sowre-sweet dayesI will lament, and love.”
“Daydream, which is to thought as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, and is concerned with it as its frontier. An atmosphere inhabited by living transparencies: there's a beginning of the ...”
“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which I dont much respect (Mosaic Law, the Nuremberg Laws...”
“Apriority creates ambiguities among ideas.”
“Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alertto her next disaster.Despite being resigned to a life of misfortune, she becameresourceful.She grudgingly noticed that things always wor...”
“The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.”
“I believe that when you step into uncharted territory, you are also stepping into total abandonment, potential humiliation, and a space where nothing is guaranteed; theres no case study or roadmap....”
“The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers”
“The mental mist of ambiguity and the fog of ambivalence hamper human existence.”
“It took him almost a half hour to write a message of only five lines. It took yet another fifteen minutes to delete whatever might be construed as ambiguity, desperation, or references to a history...”
“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.”
“Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems...”
“In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrificehe cherishes all these words, but exactly what do they represent? Sacrifice for what? Demand what sort of order? He...”
“Ive come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I dont, and cant, understand. Whats mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesnt fit into a story, what doesnt have a sto...”
“Stories start in all sorts of places. Where they begin often tells the reader of what to expect as they progress. Castles often lead to dragons, country estates to deeds of deepest love (or of hate...”
“They wanted a list of symptoms: dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations. You could not say, it is a different life trying to nudge this one aside. I am meant to be living that different life. Who w...”
“It was all very isolating to think about, what people use to define themselves and their actions. And at the end of the day, did it make people feel better? Maybe it did. Maybe it gave them somethi...”
