Quotes About Opposites

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

The other side of... pain is joy... control is freedom... sadness is happiness... chaos is calmness... individuality is community... hate is Love... Seek out balance whenever you can...

Everything in the world cooks down to two. Either- or, if-then, yes-no, night-day, good-bad. You all believe in twos so much I wonder if any of you can count to three.

Lo irreal no es lo opuesto a lo real, sino su lenguaje. Lo banal no es lo contrario de lo profundo, sino su fracaso. Lo trágico no es el reverso de lo cómico, sino su vecino. Lo antiguo no es la negación de lo nuevo, sino su futuro.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

los pigmentos reales, las pinturas de tubo, no tenían nada que ver con los colores de la luz. Mezclar colores reales, es decir, añadirles o sumarles tonos, siempre da como resultado el color negro mientras que la suma de colores de luz siempre da como resultado el blanco. Son efectos totalmente opuestos.

Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting on its shoes.

In this world of interdependence, opposite emotions are also connected. As William Blake put it "joy and woe are woven fine". I know this because one of the reasons I love life is because I was once suicidal. I have sincerely known moments of content in my life for having gone through years of hell.

The simple beauty of the yin/yang system is based on the observation that everything has two sides. The word yin designates the shady side of a mountain; the word yang represents the sunny side. By extension, yin came to mean all things dark, cool, damp, hidden, withdrawn, interior, feminine, while yang represented all things light, warm, dry, exteriorized, visible, masculine.

In practice, most people will exhibit a mix of tissue states—usually two, and sometimes three. Diseases often go through a progression of states. Opposites are often active: irritation/depression, constriction/relaxation, and atrophy/stagnation. In chronic cases, the organism seems to reduce to the least active: atrophy, torpor, and depression. The

E]vil as an ontological presence exists in the very structure of being as part of a totality comprising opposites. Moreover, it exists because being is a structure and process of possibility, and possibility requires all options . . . Maat and isfet and their innumerable variations.

The negative has its positive side, the positive its negative, and it is precisely because each has its contrary within itself that they are capable of passing into one another, and perpetually play the role of warring brothers in history.

Sometimes it feels like life's about understanding how much opposites meet. Kill to cure, poison to immunize, sacrifice to save.

It's just Jessica and Marcus, oxymoronically alone together.

Candle needs darkness to show its talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it disappears when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten.

Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan!

Thanks to the night, we long for the day; thanks to the day, we long for the night! The purpose of the opposites is to make us long for something! Thanks to the crowds, we long for the solitude; thanks to the solitude, we long for the crowds!

The moment where the fisherman catches the fish, happiness and agony, light and darkness, joy and death come face to face!