Quotes About Opposites

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

Honey poured over thunder.

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

Si el hielo puede arder, el amor y el odio se pueden emparejar. Montaña o pantano, da igual. La tierra es una» —Jojen.

madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin.

Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than courage and cowardice? I do not think there is a man alive who will not yearn to possess the former and dread to be accused of the latter. One is held to be the apogee of man's character, the other its nadir. An yet, to me the two sit side by side on the circle of life, removed from each other by the merest degree of arc. (MARCH - Chapter 11 - page 168)

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.

She doesn't like you, McNab. "I knoooow. I find that really attractive in a woman.

United by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A whole.

I mean, come on. He's kind of cute, in a Godzilla sort of way.

Esto es lo que debe ser, la luz y la oscuridad juntas, dos mitades formando una unidad.

If all the world were green, there would be no such thing as the color green. Similarly, men cannot know what it is to be together without otherwise knowing what it is to be apart. If all the world were love, then, how could love exist? This is why we turn away from each other on moments of great happiness and closeness. How can we know happiness and closeness without contrasting them, like lights?

He is the antithesis of Voltaire, the child of Leibniz.

'Twilight' and 'Remember Me' couldn't be more different.

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

The best thing in the world is to put two characters who hate each other side by side. Or put two people who love each other far away, so they have to reach for each other with their looks.

The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam's rib. Then there's Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types.

Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death.

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.

Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.

There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.