Quotes About Opposites

Other people savor the symmetry of opposites.

If the hero hasn't turned up, you may have to settle for the villain." "If the villain's the one who turns up, he is the hero.

fear good things happening because I believe something bad is sure to follow. Yin and yang, as comedy can't exist without tragedy. In my universe, pleasure and pain are opposite sides of the pendulum.

Erect, it had been more impressive, a novel juxtaposition of hard and soft, with its glove of silky skin that slid against the stiff, veined flesh underneath.

Y tu eres todo lo que yo no quiero

True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

In life's work, bliss and sacrifice are two sides of the same coin, complementary opposites.

Contrasting styles is always the most fun to watch.

When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

like increases like" and "opposites balance," give us all the information we need to maintain or restore our health

For where there is heaven, there can also be hell.

I think the darkest dark is always attracted to the brightest light.

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

Body of yin, soul of yang. Metal and fire unified. The outer and inner; microcosmos in my palm.

Body of yin, soul of yang.

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

Marx inverted Hegel's dialectics and stood it right side up, on its feet.

The abstract and the concrete side of operations are opposites, but you can't have one without the other, if, that is, you want get the job done well.

She is the weakness you think of as strength while I am the strength you have no idea is there.

You have to believe that the opposites reach for each other. I had to understand that when I was thinking I am lost, I was actually finding that I was lost. the two opposite things were true at the same time: found and lost.

We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one, you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too.