Quotes About Duality

Copil fiind, îÈ™i tr?ise viaÈ›a m?runt? pe de-a întregul în sinea ei. De timpuriu înÈ›elesese instinctiv dualitatea existenÈ›ei: viaÈ›a exterioar?, la care te adaptezi, viaÈ›a interioar?, în care îÈ›i pui întreb?ri.

It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin.

I don't know," said Diana. "I gave up a long time ago trying to decide whether we're ever ourselves or are only playing roles. And who could tell which the role was, the passionate kisser or the ruthless conqueror? Maybe they both are roles. Or maybe they're both true. Can't two contradictory things exist inside one person?

The Coven of Witches, however, believed only in the natural forces of the world. Everyone was free to seek their own path to wisdom and to worship in whatever way they pleased. If they prayed, it was to Eà, who encompassed both light and darkness, life and death, the creative and the destructive. Eà was neither good nor evil, male nor female. Eà was both and neither.

It's hard to explain how this works, and I admit that it's fairly implausible or untenable as a way of life, but that seems to be how I go about my days: peaceably in person, fiercely on paper.

Often, people want both to live and to die; ambivalence saturates the suicidal act.

I can't think, I can't calm this murderous cauldron, my grand ideas of an hour ago seem absurd and pathetic, my life is in ruins and - worse still - ruinous; my body is uninhabitable. It is raging and weeping and full of destruction and wild energy gone amok. In the mirror I see a creature I don't know but must live with and share my mind with. I understand why Jekyll killed himself before Hyde had taken over completely.

God enjoys himself, kills, commits injustice, makes love, works, likes impossible things, just the same as I do. But, boss, I´ve said so before, and I say it again, God and the devil are one and the same thing!

Demons are a very human creation. You look for ways to explain evil, and instead of seeing it in yourselves, you offload the responsibility onto monsters. The monstrous exists in the mirror, not in the sulfurous depths of some fantasy world.

Happiness! Misery! If you were one, bet on it the other was on the way.

Brave words came easily in the dark. Daylight might tell a different story.

All that's best of dark and bright.'

The trouble with superheroes is what to do between phone booths.

continuously horrific hell permeated by a constantly perfect heaven.

When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.

Power is neither good nor evil.

She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?

Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these two contrasting forces.

She held out her hands, cupped and holding a small plant.'The power to heal is the power to destroy, ' she said with the faintest smile.

Everybody has a second personality, it may possess and make you do whatever it likes.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.

Who can determine where one ends and the other begins?