Quotes about Ambiguity
People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.
— Jay-Z
I don't know. There isn't always an explanation for everything.
— Ernest Hemingway
I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am?
— Ernest Hemingway
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.
— Ernest Hemingway
Why did you do it? — I don't know. Here isn't always an explanation for everything. — Oh isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. — That's awfully nice. — Do We have to go on and talk this way? — No. — That's a relief. Isn't it?
— Ernest Hemingway
he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister. All
— Ernest Hemingway
Why did you do it? — I don't know. There isn't always an explanation for everything. — Oh isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. — That's awfully nice. — Do we have to go on and talk this way? — No. — That's a relief. Isn't it?
— Ernest Hemingway
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
— Graham Greene
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.
— Robert Frost
it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are!
— Lewis Carroll
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.
— Lewis Carroll
You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.
— Euripides