Ray Davies Quotes

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.

Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.

My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

I don't know what I believe in. I try not to think about it. I don't want to think about it.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

Life isn't always black and white. You're not always sure you're right. At least I'm not.

I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think - really, truly think - that they're doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We are in the position of a man with an elaborate camping kit who finds himself lost in the woods without his matches; to kindle a fire he has to resort to the stratagems of the caveman. We fall back through generations into the oldest terrors and confusions of the race.

For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

...And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep...For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.

I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.