Quotes About Duality

Truth was sometimes not the same as reality—this was one of the certainties that lived in the hollow, cavey place at the center of his divided nature.

There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose.

Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that's what life is like, that's what interests me.

If I've learned one thing, it's that the unfortunate thing about life is that everything's mixed. There's no absolute good and there's no absolute evil. There's just a lot of confusion.

How perfectly evil spirit and beauty can combine in one person, harmonically supplementing each other.

It's shameful for a devil to be good.

I think life becomes a fabric of choices, interwoven, all related... I split my life into these two things, thief and lady

Love side, hate side, never in between

Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds.

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

I have a love-hate relationship with performing.

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.

I love the idea of playing a good guy who's fighting his own demons.

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

In order to love fighting, I have to hate it.

You cannot act in love and act in fear at the same time. You must choose between them.

I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don't love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.

You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other.

I remembered Agnes's words: that we who traveled far from home would always have our hearts in two places. I placed my hand on the candlewick bedspread. And, finally, I wept.