Ambiguous Nature Quotes

What are you?" I rasped. It smiled. "Whatever scares you.

Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.

The prince in 'The Leopard' was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at times romantic, good, understanding - and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious.

What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.

You know me, but you don't know me. I give you what I want to give you. I relate to villains like that - but I'm not out to destroy the world.

The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.

Some of the most interesting characters in literature and in movies and TV have been ones that you can't quite figure out all the way.

You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.

That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.

I'm congenitally vague.

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.