Quotes About Duality

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.

Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.

Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!

Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

We have two lives; The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house.

It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.

A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?

We are all genetic chimeras, at once saints and sinners, champions of the truth and hypocrites – not because humanity has failed to reach some foreordained religious or ideological ideal, but because of the way our species originated across millions of years of biological evolution.

It's the hardest addiction of all,' said Patrick. 'Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, that deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

An angel and evil live within you; your thoughts and actions feed to let, allow, and empower them to play the role. It depends on you, which one you choose and please.