Barry Unsworth Quotes

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

If you take the yin-yang, it has a piece of the other inside itself. You can't be too much of one thing and be balanced.

'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

Everything contains its antithesis.

I think there's a yin and a yang to everything.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.

Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is also true: silence cannot exist without creativity.

Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

I'm all about polarities and juxtapositions.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

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