Quotes about Ambiguity

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.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Sometimes the right thing felt all wrong until it was over and done with.

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.