Japanese Proverb Quotes

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Every side of a coin has another side.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

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.'

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

There are two words for everything.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

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

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

There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.

There's two heads to every coin.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

There are two sides to every question.

I have an incredibly dark, mysterious, witchy side and another side that's very bubbly and cheerleader-esque.

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

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

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

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.