Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

The world is full of contradiction.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

The dark is light enough.

The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.

I feel like humans, when you're faced with decisions, you can go up and down: duality.

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 epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

Everybody is naughty, everybody is good.

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.

I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

We see every day that our very laws have both sides of the fence.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.