Ellen Hopkins Quotes

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

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

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between.

Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

Yet for every peak there is a valley.

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.

I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

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

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

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.

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

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

Out of all things bad, something good. Out of all things good, something bad.

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

In life, there's a ying and a yang and a balance. And when you don't have balance, you have comedy.

I'm all about polarities and juxtapositions.

If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It's all or nothing. In this damn world, it's all or nothing.

Where there's love, there's hate; where there's positivity, there's ignorance.

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

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

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.

We're always in the middle of two energies. Gravity is sinking you down; inspiration is pulling you up.

I love to have contrast.