Quotes About Opposites

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.

I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.

For instance, I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.

I feel the darkness near me; I feel the light shining. And more keenly I feel the contrast between the two.

After we flew across the country we got in bed, laid our bodies delicately together, like a map, laid face to face, East to West, my San Francisco against your New York

She's proving to be the soft and sensual yin to my dirty as fuck yang.

I can tell we're going to get along like Batman and the Joker. (Fang) Just remember one thing, world. I'm the best friend you'll ever have or the last enemy you'll ever make. (Thorn)

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is also true: silence cannot exist without creativity.

In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.

as dark did with light and weakness with strength. Nothing was simple or pure;

you and I are black and white—a film noir, filled with gestures, poignant and tender

People, shadows, good, bad, Heaven, Hell: all of these were names, labels, that was all. Humans had created these opposites: Nature recognised no opposites. Even life and death weren't opposites in Nature: one was merely an extension of the other.

People, shadows, good, bad, Heaven, Hell: all of these were names, labels, that was all. Humans had created these opposites: Nature recognised no opposites. Even life and death weren't opposites in Nature: one was merely an extension of the other.

Ludzie, cienie, dobro, z?o, niebo, piek?o: wszystko to tylko etykietki, nic wi?cej. Ludzie sami stworzyli te przeciwie?stwa: natura ich nie dostrzega?a. W naturze nawet ?ycie i ?mier? nie by?y przeciwie?stwami - po prostu jedno stawa?o si? przed?u?eniem drugiego.stwa

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

they didn't have a lot in common in the way people understood that phrase. Rather, they were opposite sides of the same coin. They complemented each other, completed each other. They'd created a life that glowed.

You can achieve knowledge only through comparing the two sides, positive and negative, which have become separated from each other. As long as these two sides are together, resting in each other, you can't perceive or recognize anything.

Pearl earrings stood in stark contrast to the twisted iron torc that rode her throat, matte black roundelles flanking the notch of her collar bone.

Even if one were tempted to literary interpretations such as: life/death, right/wrong, male/female --such notions would have resolved, dissolved, straight off in that watery, dazzling dialectic.