Edward Norton Quotes

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

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.

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

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

Life really is a series of contrasts.

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.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

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

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

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

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

Everything contains its antithesis.

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