Quotes About Opposites

Like light and shadow, love and hate were inseparable. One could not exist without the other.

You are ice and fire The touch of you burns my hands like snow

All I can say is if one was tea, the other coffee. If one was smoke, the other cigar. There is absolutely nothing in common between them except they both fought to win.

The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves.

the story of love and vanity are always as though as ice and heat

He is the one pocket of warmth in a sea of ice.

Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire.

The good is mostly in the absence of bad";

He looked solid, like an oar, whereas Jesse—well, she decided, Jesse was like water: thin, and quick.

When he touches a wall the ooze grows thicker, drawn to his and as if he's become a gravity well for the darkness - and it occurs to me that the dark must be in love with the light. Yet one must always kill the other.

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.

That girl enjoyed everything that bored me and everything that I enjoyed bored her. We were the perfect mates: what kept us going was the tolerable and intolerable distance between us. We kept meeting each day—and each night—with nothing solved and no chance to solve it. Perfection.

We love the juxtaposition of something saccharine with something morbid.

we are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin.

They coil around each other, the light and the darkness, and they absorb each other continuously, yet they never cancel each other out.

What's funny about opposites be that wet and dry both has water, boy and girl be about people, Heaven and Hell be the places you go when you die. They all has something in common. So they an't completely different from each other the way people think. Having the one don't mean t'other be gone.

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

The natural state of the human psyche consists in a jostling together of its components and in their contradictory behavior... The reconciliation of these opposites is a major problem. Thus, the adversary is none other than 'the other in me.

Opposites attract. But opposites destroy.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

The way the world is made. The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good." She took a step toward him. "Death and life. Everywhere, opposites. Everywhere, the war.

To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.

The crow calls the raven black.

Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—" "They won't," Tyrion said. "They are too different and yet too much alike, and neither could ever stomach the other.