Quotes About Duality

You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings.

I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.

India is beyond statement, for anything you say, the opposite is also true. It's rich and poor, spiritual and material, cruel and kind, angry but peaceful, ugly and beautiful, and smart but stupid. It's all the extremes.

India is beyond statement, for anything you say, the opposite is also true. It's rich and poor, spiritual and material, cruel and kind, angry but peaceful, ugly and beautiful, and smart but stupid. It's all the extremes. India defies understanding

The dark owns everything, but our sun comes out often enough that we think the universe is half dark, half light.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

What you're asking me to do is monstrous." "So? Ain't we both monsters?

Nico Rossi wasn't a good boy. He was a bad boy dressed in a good suit.

My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better.

My mind now has a celebration party and a funeral going on in the same room.

there are two people living inside of me.. most conveniently, as I can always put the blame on someone else

A smile cures all forms of sickness, yet behind many smiles lies a set of very sharp teeth, carnivorous and rarely satisfied.

My playing fields were comprised of a black and white universe – cold/hot, light/dark, heaven/hell, right/wrong – this, my guide, my birthright. Something was buried in the back of my soul – the signs were all there but no one knew, no one could tell so when I eventually went over the edge, it was meant to be a lesson learned.

There are two of me now, old and disfigured, new and disheveled. A crinkled, yellow newspaper balled up in the fireplace, spidery face, rotted jaw, sewn and resewn.

we love and hate with equal madness

My experience of the past several years does not lend itself to the belief that good can or will defeat evil. This is not a pessimistic view, but simply an observation of facts as I have experienced them.

I want to hug you. And I want to tear your gods-damned head off. Both at once." "Ah," said Locke. "Near as I can tell, that's the definition of 'family' right there.

The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games—" "—is Locke Lamora—

I am utterly emboldened in my cowardice.

Maybe some of both.

If you believe that the atoms that are inside your brain and your body act differently because they are in a living person than if they were in a rock or a crystal, then what you're saying is that the laws of physics are wrong.

That's the uncertainty principle. It's not that we can't know both quantities at the same time; it's just a fact about how wave functions work that if position is concentrated near some location, momentum is completely undetermined, and vice versa.

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

Half of my heart's got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time.