Quotes About Opposites

A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.

Hurston embodied a more or less harmonious but nevertheless problematic unity of opposites.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

Une des plus grandes niaiseries du commerce parisien est de vouloir trouver le succès dans les analogues, quand il est dans les contraires A

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

Opposites are joined at the hip. Night and day, poisons and pleasures, innovation and destruction are usually different facets of the very same thing. [...] Opposites work together in the very opposite of the way they seem - not tearing each other to bits or threatening to annihilate each other.

When the Tigress plays, the dragon whips its tail.

It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

Serious things cannot be understood without humorous things Nor opposites without opposites.

Las cosas serias no se pueden entender sin las cosas humorísticas; ni los opuestos sin opuestos.

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end. C. G. JUNG

Jung has pointed out that bitterness and wisdom form a pair of opposites. "Where there is bitterness, wisdom is lacking, and where wisdom is, there can be no bitterness." Tears, sorrow, and disappointment are bitter, he says. But wisdom is the comforter in suffering.

Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.

Gravity, Craig," Old Pola said to me. "Now, there's a force to match tectonics. What goes up must come down.

Like twinned with unlike is beauty's shock.

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.

There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang

The journey towards oneness emphasizes the opposites and we are caught in their conflict.

The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.

reaction formation, unacceptable feelings or impulses are expressed as their opposite,

If I had to describe what love meant, really, not in the abstract or the sentimental or the way I'd imagined it before, that I'd say it was completely irrational, made up of so many opposites, the kind that couldn't exist without the other: bliss and sadness, courage and fear, adoration and disgust.

After high school, he'd purposefully gone for the sweet, girl-next-door type, because it would never last. Not when deep deep down he craved the edgy, tough, would-take-on-the-world-if-she-had-to type.

After all, he was rigid where she was flexible. He was black and white, and she was all the rainbow in between, and they didn't go together.

Summer and Winter, constantly chasing each other, wounding what the other heals and healing what the other wounds.