Charles de Lint Quotes

I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

I don't look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There's a lot of slippage.

I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or wrong, or black or white, or whatever. To me, I'm still trying to figure out a lot of things.

I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The color of truth is gray.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

I'm not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

… a world without certainty can be richer, in all senses of the word, than a world with false convictions.

There are gray areas in everything.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems... You can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally.